_The Myth of Stolen Land and the Erasure of Indigenous Agency_

FTA: If California is stolen land in a way that nullifies all subsequent law, then property itself loses meaning. Ownership becomes arbitrary. Borders dissolve. So do contracts. If the original wrong poisons everything that follows, then no later arrangement can ever be legitimate. That conclusion is not radical justice. It is moral nihilism.

The irony is that those who repeat this slogan do not live by it. Billie Eilish, like many wealthy Californians, has sought restraining orders to keep unwanted people off her Malibu property. She asserts exclusive control over land, calls the police to enforce it, and relies on the very legal system whose legitimacy the slogan denies. If no one is illegal on stolen land, on what basis is anyone excluded. What right does she have to draw a boundary and say no farther.

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