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In the film The Revenant, the main character was attacked by this animal.
What is a bear?
These people escaped chattel slavery and formed alternative communities in often hostile environments.
Who are the maroons?
This concept was made up to figure nature as a pristine place that needed protection, but also was used to mark land as inaccessible to many non-white, non-male and non-wealthy peoples.
What is wilderness?
This act privatizes public land, and provides the basis for capital accumulation. Sometimes this was done by literally putting a fence around a piece of land.
What is fish?
Citing this war as the context, the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is WWII?
Marshallese navigation video featured this alternative to traditional maps.
What are stick charts?
This character appears as a head on a raite in the play Heroes and Saints.
Who is Cerezita?
As adapted by international law, this refers to “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”
What is ecocide?
As compensation for fighting in the Civil War, black Americans were promised these agricultural resources.
What are forty acres and a mule?
During this war, the US military equated enemy combatants with weeds and launched herbicidal warfare.
What is the Vietnam War?
The People vs Agent Orange opens with this place that was affected by Agent Orange.
What is the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon? (Oregon)
In A Mercy, this woman was first to join Jacob in his farm.
Who is Lina?
Meaning “empty land,” this concept (in Latin) forms the foundation of settler colonial dispossession of land.
What is terra nullius?
This indigenous form of intercropping includes maize, beans and squash to find balanced agriculture and increase land utility.
What is three sisters farming?
In this violent uprising in the 1600s, indentured white servants and enslaved black people fought together.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Radio Bikini showcases the launching of this technology during the US’s nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands with the voiceover “it’s the first time this technology was established in the Marshall Islands and undoubtedly the last.”
What is the radio?
This Marshallese poet wrote about her experience preparing a history project on US’s nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Who is Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner?
This act privatizes public land, and provides the basis for capital accumulation. Sometimes this was done by literally putting a fence around a piece of land.
What is enclosure?
In A Mercy, Minha Mae was said to smell like this spice.
What is a clove?
In the aftermath of this war in 1898, the US empire expanded its imperial control to the following territories: Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?