Agriculture in the North: A New Strategy of Indigenous Land Dispossession - by Sarah Rotz & Daniel Rück

In doing operations into the purview of the land in question — in so, they take on a similar tone to the kinds of agricultural this case, through the prospect of land transformation for industrialization and farmland nancialization that have agricultural development. [...] in the realm of nance rather than in farming or forestry itself.11 Financialization, then, is a system and strategy of Proponents of agricultural expansion in the Clay Belt economic accumulation, and land assembly is a means of are pursuing a strategy of “land assembly” to promote getting there. [...] Food growing agricultural pesticide application on soil organic matter and gathering that is designed and led by Indigenous levels, microbial and earthworm presence, water health, nations and communities, who have jurisdiction and and long-term pesticide residues in the soil and water authority over their traditional territories, may oer yellowheadinstitute.org 3 leadership and knowledge to addres. [...] this could be a time to build genuine and lasting As a result, industrialized agricultural expansion and relationships between settler and Indigenous communities world-building has meant dispossession and disaster for and to discover dierent political and decision making many Indigenous peoples, the land, and all those striving pathways. [...] yellowheadinstitute.org 5 21 Daschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life; Feir, Gillezeau, and Jones, “e Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains.” 22 Anishnabe Moose Research Committee, “Anishnabe Knowledge and Governance for the Protection of Moose Populations in and around La Verendrye Park, Quebec.” 23 Robin, T., Rot.