Writing Elsewhere

I’ve been writing elsewhere than this blog in recent months, much of it appearing in Indian Country Today. The focus is on sharpening and heightening the critique of federal Indian law in the face of increasing anti-Indian uses of that body of law by the US Supreme Court.

For example, here’s a three column series in Indian Country Today analyzing federal Indian ‘trust doctrine’ in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision denying compensation to the Navajo Nation for decades of underpaid coal extraction pursuant to federally approved leases [United States v. Navajo Nation, (2009)]:

“Navajo Nation, known as an ‘Indian tribe'” – ICT, April 15, 2009
“Can federal Indian ‘trust’ be trusted?” – ICT, April 22, 2009
“The sands of federal ‘trust'” – ICT, April 29, 2009

The columns have garnered a variety of comments and have been reprinted and linked to by other writers. I am happy to be part of a rethinking of these matters.

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