The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony challenged white American perceptions of

challenged white American perceptions of modernity

and action that would be genuinely new for Native and non-Native relations

You cannot discover lands already inhabited

" (Globe & Mail 2008-08-26)

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony challenged white American perceptions ofThe White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton