S06E05: The Sloan Lecture - The Oneidas, the Best Land, and the Erie Canal - By Susan Brewer
type: PodcastEpisode
description: 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.
type: WebPage
date published: 2026-02-09
date modified: 2026-02-09
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
encoding: MediaObject
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keywords: Best Land, Innovation, Land Dispossession, Historical Erasure, Haudenosaunee
part of series: Outcome Podcast
author: Philip P. Arnold
  type: Person
  affiliation: Syracuse University
author: Sandra Bigtree
  type: Person
  affiliation: Indigenous Values Initiative
author: Adam DJ Brett
  type: Person
  affiliation: Indigenous Values Initiative
publisher: Outcome
citation: 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.

Outcome Podcast
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