ABSTRACT
In particular, this chapter will focus on the removal of Native children from their mothers and communities as an act of reproductive violence linked to slavery.
The state-sanctioned infusion of whiteness with property interests over Native women’s reproductive freedom through the termination of parental rights and divestiture of children is tied to their historical entrapment in state-sanctioned systems of slavery. This chapter investigates how whiteness has been imbued with property rights vis-á-vis the control of Native women’s reproductive freedom through enslavement, indentured servitude, land dispossession, and the removal of children.
