Registration: Erasing Indigenous Land Rights
Land title registration on Torrens’ model spread quickly, not only to other settler colonies in Australia, New Zealand, and western Canada, but also to colonies where indigenous peoples’ land tenure ideas and practices did not accommodate plantation agric
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Deeds, Titles, and Changing Concepts of Land Rights
David Ress
Deeds, Titles, and Changing Concepts of Land Rights Colonial Innovations and Their Impact on Social Thought
David Ress School of Humanities University of New England Armidale, NSW, Australia
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For Karen, Morgan, and Jared, as ever—and for a good friend, Andy Obermueller
Preface
As we walked across that field in central Kansas and followed a line of old walnut trees toward the thick stands of cottonwoods by the creek, my friend Andy put the point of this book particularly clearly: Our connections to land go deeper—a lot deeper—than what legal or economic theory tell us. Andy’s great grandparents had settled there more than a century earlier. His grandfather and father had carefully tended to those walnut trees in a tough land simply because they liked them and didn’t see the need to gain a few more yards to plant. Down nearer the creek, where we spotted some stalks of milo sorghum still standing after last year’s harvest, Andy remembered how his dad liked to leave the last few rows of milo standing, for the birds. I could see the swifts and meadowlarks dart across that wide blue Kansas sky as we talked. There had been deer tracks and scat on the dirt road we had slipped and slid along to reach this favorite spot. Deep connections. Forged long ago by homesteading—that is, securing a place on the land by cultivating it, just as John L
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