The Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) Territory
What “#LandBack” Leaves Out of Focus “A return to an earlier or normal condition” is one definition of the word “back.” In relation to land…
Navajo – Treaty – Water: The Untrustworthy ‘Trust Doctrine’ of Federal Anti-Indian Law
I thank the US Supreme Court for providing, through two recent decisions of domination over Indigenous peoples, an opportunity to demonstrate what I mean by…
“Conquest” is Another Word for Domination
by: Steven Newcomb War—or the act or state of exerting violence against another—is the context for the word conquest. Another way of understanding “a conquest”…
Indigenous Property Perspectives … and how they differ from Western Law
By: Peter d’Errico A world of “ours” and a world of “mine” UCLA property law professor Angela R. Riley’s June 2023 review of Mine!: How…
Revoke the Papal Bulls
By Steven Newcomb – Original Nation Advocates/Indigenous Law Institute In response to the Papal Bulls issued 530 years ago today and tomorrow (3 and 4…
Lithium Mine at Thacker Pass: “We don’t need no stinking permit!”
Attack on the Earth On July 6, 2023, an article in the Reno (NV) Gazette Journal presented “12 questions about Lithium Americas’ $2.3 billion Thacker Pass Project…