Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California Pomo and reclaiming your identity

and reclaiming your identity

Drawing on these stories and others

Indigenous artist Neal Shannacappo provides the artwork

the cousins get distracted

a traditional Ojibwe tale

Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California Pomo and reclaiming your identityYoung countercultural back to the land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3. 5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the cannabis