Settler Colonial Sovereignty: Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure Tlingit following the Navajo philosophy of

following the Navajo philosophy of a balanced and harmonious life

The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom

" — Attorney Kathryn Holt Richardson

a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly

live east of the Missouri River

Settler Colonial Sovereignty: Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure Tlingit following the Navajo philosophy ofKnowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non Western ways of knowing especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities. In settler colonial states those in power seldom question this erasure, despite the ongoing presence and power of Indigenous nations. In this groundbreaking work, Liam Midzain Gobin illuminates how the logic of improvement animates this epistemological