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• Global Partners LP (NYSE: GLP) (“Global” or the “Partnership”) today announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of 25 liquid energy terminals from Motiva Enterprises LLC (“Motiva”).
• The transaction is underpinned by a 25-year take-or-pay throughput agreement with Motiva, the anchor tenant at the terminals, that includes minimum annual revenue commitments.
• “This acquisition nearly doubles our operating footprint, giving Global a significant position from Maine to Florida and into the Gulf Coast,” said Eric Slifka, the Partnership’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
• The new assets expand access to a critical network of marine loading facilities as well as the Colonial, Plantation, Enterprise, Explorer and Magellan refined product pipelines.

• In 2021, the Biden administration declared the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
• I am a scholar of Colonial-Indigenous relations and think that officially recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day – and, more broadly, Native Americans’ history and survival – is important.
• Yet, Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day should also serve as a reminder of the violent past endured by Indigenous communities in North America.

Understanding scalping

• Popular culture is full of examples of Native Americans scalping white settlers.
• In several Indigenous cultures in North America, scalping was part of human trophy taking, which involves claiming human body parts as a war trophy.
• But just because scalping was practiced by some Native American societies, it does not mean that it was practiced by all.
• In fact, Colonists’ use of scalping against Native American people likely accelerated this practice.

Scalp bounties in New England and California

• Colonies, territories and states in what is now the U.S. used scalp bounties widely from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
• Colonial governments in New England issued over 60 scalp bounties from the 1680s through the 1750s, typically during various conflicts between Colonists and Native Americans.
• Massachusetts made the widest use of scalp bounties among the New England Colonies in the 1700s.
• State and federal officials, as well as several businesses, supported this genocide by paying bounties to scalp hunters.

Memory and violence

• Centuries later, California and Massachusetts have had different responses to their role in these sordid histories.
• California has acknowledged “historic wrongdoings” and the violence committed against the Indigenous people who live in the state.
• Gavin Newsom set up a a Truth and Healing Council to discuss and examine the state’s historical relationship with Native Americans.

Legacies of scalping

• The legacies of violence and scalping are deeply rooted and can be observed in numerous parts of U.S. society today.
• For instance, various communities, including Lovewell, Maine, and Spencer, Mass., are named after scalp bounty hunters.
• Such town names, and the history of violence connected to them, often hide in plain sight.

• The ruling comes after a group of Indigenous women known as the Mohawk Mothers called for an emergency court hearing to halt excavations at the site.
• In October 2022, the Mohawk Mothers obtained a temporary injunction against McGill to stop any excavations.
• In April, Québec’s Superior Court approved a settlement allowing the Mohawk Mothers to investigate unmarked graves at the site.
• Read more:
  Inside the search for the unmarked graves of children lost to Indian Residential Schools — Podcast

Defining mapping

• McGill’s lawyer argued that mapping means making a map with points or zones where different archaeological techniques should be applied to find human remains.
• When all the zones were drawn, the panel could be disbanded because the mapping was over.
• This interpretation distorts and extensively simplifies the process of mapping the unmarked graves of children.
• It reduces mapping to a mere checklist item, detached from the ever-changing reality on the ground.
• While this initial mapping serves as a starting point, the panel should remain involved as the map evolves.

Colonial vs. decolonial perspectives

• Observing the courtroom proceedings, I was struck by the enduring presence of colonial assumptions about cartography.
• Indigenous communities continue having to advocate for and defend their cartographic methods in order to uphold their connections and duties to the land.
• A truly decolonial mapping project centres and respects Indigenous geographical knowledge and protocols, and includes involvement of Indigenous communities in the process.