What do maps, fences, flood control, and barbed wire have in common? They all tell stories about land... and about who was erased from it.In this episode of Stratified, we dig into the many ways land gets taken: through colonial language, survey systems, national parks, water policy, and literal bulldozers. From “empty” lands to “wilderness” myths, and from forgotten cemeteries to beavers as ecological resistance, we ask: whose lines are these, really?Featuring:🪧 The myth of untouched land🌲 Indigenous land management (and “good fire”)📏 The Public Land Survey System💧 Flood control, water treaties, and the Lipan Apache fight at the border⚰️ Texas’s Lost Cemeteries Project🧭 And what archaeology can do—when we let it🔗 Sources & Further Reading📄 “Bringing Good Fire Back to the Land” – Reasons to Be Cheerful📄 “Fires, Fascism, and the Loss of Indigenous Knowledge” – Medium, The New Climate📄 “Federal Report Finds Tribal Burial, Cultural Sites Blasted for Border Wall” – Truthout📄 Lipan Apache Preservation: Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes – Big Bend Conservation Alliance📄 Texas Historical Commission: Lost Cemeteries Project📄 Water & Tribal Rights (Background) – Indian Law Resource Center📄 Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Overview – BLM📄 “Yellowstone National Park: Land of the Crow and Shoshone” – NPS Cultural Anthropology Program📬 Email: stratifiedpod@gmail.com📸 Instagram: @stratifiedpod🌀 Bluesky: stratifiedpod.bsky.social #BeaversNotBulldozers