@dayzie_blu: They didn’t fail to patent their inventions. They were blocked—on purpose. Then their ideas were stolen, renamed, and made legal for someone else. This wasn’t history gone wrong. This was policy working as designed. Read more about the evils of the colonial government here in Redacted Roots! https://a.co/d/iqmztRO #fyp #trending #patents #indigenous #History United States Patent Office. (1858). Rules and directions for obtaining patents. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. (Establishes legal personhood and procedural barriers.) • Dunlap, T. R. (2004). Nature and the English diaspora: Environment and history in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Cambridge University Press. (Documents extraction of Indigenous agricultural and environmental knowledge.) • Browne, S. (2015). Dark matters: On the surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press. (Explains racial classification, documentation, and legal erasure.) • Deloria, V., Jr. (1988). Custer died for your sins: An Indian manifesto. University of Oklahoma Press. (Addresses identity erasure and legal manipulation of Indigenous status.) • McClure, R. (2018). Biopiracy and Indigenous knowledge. Indigenous Policy Journal, 29(2). (Connects historical patent theft to modern intellectual property law.) • Banner, S. (2005). How the Indians lost their land: Law and power on the frontier. Harvard University Press. (Shows how law was used as an instrument of dispossession.) • Walter Plecker Collection. (1912–1946). Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics records. Library of Virginia. (Primary source on racial reclassification and paper genocide.)

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