Systematic Land Theft

Systematic Land Theft - In "Sytematic Land Theft," each chapter captures how land has been lost in Black and Indigenous communities. Hishaw, uses her family's loss of land as a case study, throughout the book to affirm why she has committed her career to land justice work. The reality is Whites presently own over 95% of farmland in the United States due to the misappropriation of tribal lands and exploitation of enslaved African labor. As Europeans strategically immigrated and implemented English common law into U.S. governance, property ownership was created.