S06E05: The Sloan Lecture - The Oneidas, the Best Land, and the Erie Canal - By Susan Brewer
Susan Brewer discusses the history of the best land — a specific area in Madison County, New York—and the dispossession of the Oneida Nation during the development of the Erie Canal.
Best Land, Innovation, Land Dispossession, Historical Erasure, Haudenosaunee
Philip P. Arnold and Sandra Bigtree, "S06E05: The Sloan Lecture - The Oneidas, the Best Land, and the Erie Canal - By Susan Brewer," _Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery_ (Podcast), February 9, 2026.