HENRY BRANNAN

This work -- comprised of timelines, papers and images -- tells the history of how Grinnell College came to hold the deed to the land it's on and then how that history has been and continues to be whitewashed.

 

After that, it briefly details some of the means used in the dispossession of native tribes and nations and the present-day continuations of those processes. It then finally outlines a couple possible paths forward according to indigenous studies scholars, groups and even some of my own opinions.

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In addition to what's below, I also wrote it into an article in the Scarlet and Black paper and presented it at local conferences. The project was completed in 2019. 

My intent was to make this history known and to do so to kickstart the process of addressing what it means to be on this land and how to move forward. 

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(My other theses level projects were looks at: anti-gentrification activism in the U.S., whether Jamaica Kinkaid was right that Barclays Bank built its fortune off slavery, the impacts of the unratified Tansy Point Treaties on native nations in the Pacific Northwest and why communism never fell in Cuba.)

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Last updated June 2019.