"How can they give it when it is our own?": Imagining the Indian land question from here -- "Why did they take our hunting grounds?": John Richardson (1796-1852) laments for the nation -- "That 'ere Ingian's one of us?": Richardson rewrites the Burkean savage -- "We have to walk on the ground": constitutive rhetoric in the courtroom addresses of Louis Riel (1844-1885) -- "We Indians own these lands": performance, authenticity, disidentification, and E. Pauline Johnson / Tekahionwake (1861-1913) -- "They taught me much": imposture, animism, ecosystem, and Archibald Belaney / Grey Owl (1888-1938) -- "They never even sent us a letter": Harry Robinson (1900-1990) on literacy and land -- (In)conclusion, or Attawapiskat v. #Ottawapiskat.