On the southern tip of Illinois is a Trail of Tears marker, which serves to at least "remind" passerby that they are traveling over stolen land, a fact that upon being contemplated, seems to serve some vague social function as a sort of repayment. Still, occupier settlements and stretches upon stretches of enclosed farmland sit silent in respectful observance of this ongoing fact.
And at the end of the trail marker, if one is traveling south, there looms a massive prison. Euphemistically titled a "Correctional Center," because those superfluous individuals who are unnecessary to accumulation, or those who are left behind when the swells of extraction abate, are "incorrect," and need to be "fixed."
