Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was als….

What John Marshall says is that right of occupancy can be taken away by purchase, conquest or any other means. So the reason that this case Johnson v….

What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were j….

Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is continued to be cited today by the Supreme Court. Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the most liberal member of the cou….

One of the prime backers of land bill was a Republican Congressman, a Paul Gosar. And when he was challenged by an Apache on this bill, he said, well….

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks where t….

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes….

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural ….

When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They'r….

Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists. A very early….

In fact, George Washington had been an Indian fighter since the French and Indian War. And a lot of folks, particularly in the red states, the Southe….

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars….

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because Congress took the la….

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to g….

Many of the situations that we've talked about whether it's the San Carlos, whether it's the Navajo fighting for their land rights or fighting to dev….

If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so maybe a little….

Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that In….

In fact, Native American Rights Fund has a project called the Supreme Court Project. And quite frankly, it's focused on trying to keep cases out of t….

Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource….

US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. Intern….

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western his….