Bruce Braun turns to the underwater ruins of Meeker Dam to look into the histories and continuities of settler colonialism.
Bruce Braun draws upon the hauntological qualities of a post-industrial, Mississippi ghost: Meeker Dam, Minneapolis, taking the now largely underwater ruin as a lens through which to examine other histories—and presents—long-submerged: the dispossession of land and denial of indigenous sovereignty as a result of settler colonialism.