The newsletter explores historical sovereignty, continuity and identity, using essays on the Mississippi River and Louisiana, and on the Five Civilized Tribes and Indian Territory, to argue that colonial and federal systems fragmented Indigenous and mixed ancestry. It reads as opinion and personal argument, and its historical claims are largely asserted rather than sourced.
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