What historian David Chang has written about the land that became Oklahoma applies to the whole United States: “Nation, race, and class converged in land.”3 Everything in US history is about the land—who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity (“real estate”) broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' Hist…, loc. 14591