The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony The Absolutely True Diary of

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

or finding the universe in an eagle feather

and social media instead of the family stories

visiting with other First Nations peoples

challenged white American perceptions of modernity

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty ceremony The Absolutely True Diary 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