ABSTRACT
Solomon's practice story weaves together several forms of expertise as it combines sensitive analysis of land uses with careful thinking about process design. Place matters not for its coordinates in geographic space, but for its moral, psychological, and social coordinates: the significance that this and that place have in lived histories of this family, that tribe, these people over generations. Certainly, there's an enormous amount of material that documents the efforts that were made to transform Indian people into white people: The stamping out of their religion, the stamping out of their language, the obliteration of just so many things Indian. To be a government as tribes are, one has to have a land base. To be sovereign in some undefined sense, one has to be sovereign over the land base. To be, to survive as, a land-based people, which is what aboriginal people are, they have to have a land base.
