Stolen Lands by Jillian Hishaw Atlanta Life Magazine

“Stolen Lands” explains what happened to the land?

stolen lands 300x600 ad — **Pre-Order Today**

Stolen Lands by Jillian Hishaw points to facts like. Of the 2.3 billion acres that make up the United States, twenty-nine percent is federally owned, two percent is held as Indian reservations, nine percent is owned by state and local government, and the remaining sixty percent is held privately. For over 10,000 years tribal nations inhabited the lands of North America it wasn’t until Europeans began to migrate to the U.S. in the late 1400’s did the country consists of borderlines creating states and ownership of private property. African and indigenous tribes believed in communal living and conservation of resources.

As the population of Europeans increased, the number of large animals like the American buffalo decreased. By 1889 the number of buffalo decreased from 60 million to 541 over the span of a decade. Millions of indigenous people were killed by Europeans for their land. The remaining survivors were forced to live on reservations which today consist of 2 % of U.S. land. From 1887 to 1934, 90 million acres of tribal land once reserved for tribes was “purchased” by the federal government.

To cultivate the land, 600,000 slaves were transported from Africa, remained in bondage til 1863. Europeans became the majority race and leveraged stolen land as collateral to secure wealth. Legal and policy systems were set in place to ensure their future hierarchal wealth status.

Official Sponsor Kraken

Consumer_Start_Trading_Crypto_with_just_10_EUR_NL_336x280

Stolen Lands by Jillian Hishaw statistics:

Whites own over 95 percent of U.S. farmland while Blacks own 0.8 percent.
Today, 1 in 3 indigenous household income is less than $25,000 annually 1 in 5 Black families live below the poverty at $26,000 per year.
Black farmers make on average less than $40,000 annually, compared to White farmers at $190,000.

Jillian Hishaw’s book “White Land Theft” explores European settlement’s impact on indigenous and black communities as it relates to U.S. land appropriation from a personal perspective.