G. Peter Jemison: One fine painting
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G. Peter Jemison: One fine painting – Two Coats of Paint G. Peter Jemison, Onondowagah Territory, 2003, acrylic on paper, 23 ⅛ × 30 ⅜ inches. Photo: Joerg Lohse Contributed by Chunbum Park / In the seventeenth century, the English justified their North American conquests with the Roman concept of res nullius , whereby all people owned unoccupied land until it was put to some worldly use. The English philosopher John Locke suggested that the Europeans could disregard all indigenous forms of government and deny indigenous peoples sovereignty because Europeans, unlike the indigenous, valued and worked the land.