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Was the United States Founded As a Democracy?0
- federal Indian law
- May 17, 2020
In his splendid book The Lawless Law of Nations (1925), Sterling E. Edmunds says that governments may be defined as “groups of men possessing arbitrary power over other men.” (p. 426) If Edmunds is right, the idea of “self-government” is not a remedy of much merit for American Indians, for such a system would
READ MOREA View of Slavery and White Domination0
- Politics
- April 30, 2020
Ever since the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, a renewed focus has been placed on “white supremacy” and “white nationalism” and their role in the early origins of the United States. As a result of the 400 year commemoration of the arrival of the first slave ship in Virginia
READ MOREThe Crown (“Corona”) Virus and the Business of America1
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- April 29, 2020
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READ MORESept. 27th Screening of our Doctrine of Discovery Documentary0
- federal Indian law
- September 12, 2020
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READ MOREThe U.S. Government’s Christian Nations Argument in Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States (1955)0
- federal Indian law
- August 27, 2020
Sixty-six years ago, in November of 1954, the U.S. Justice Department submitted a bizarre argument to the Supreme Court in the case Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States. The United States argued that the Tee-Hit-Ton Band of Tlingit Indians in Alaska should not receive monetary compensation for a taking of timber from their Tlingit territory. Why?
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“God’s” Gift of a Right of Domination0
- federal Indian law
- August 21, 2020
In the Old Testament of the Bible, we find the story of a god who chose a particular people with whom he wanted to have a special relationship. Because he chose them, they are known as his “chosen people.” The deity promised a vast amount of land to his chosen people, but, unfortunately, it was
READ MORETrump’s Speech at Mt. Rushmore: The Bully at the Bully Pulpit0
- federal Indian law
- July 5, 2020
President Donald J. Trump delivered a speech on July 3, 2020 at the mountain formation which the people of the Oceti Sakowin (or “the Great Sioux Nation”) call “the Sixth Grandfather” (Tunkasila Sakpe Nake Kihe in the Lakota language). While watching Trump give that speech, I got the impression that he was attempting to shore
READ MOREHow Their Domination Began0
- federal Indian law
- June 10, 2020
Here is the cover of a book that I found in a used bookstore in Rapid City, South Dakota in the Oceti Sakowin Territory. This book was published in 1954, the year my wife Paige was born and the year before I was born. The format of the book seems designed to teach children the
READ MOREWhen Will We Stop Accepting a Reality-System of Domination?0
- federal Indian law
- May 22, 2020
A former professor of mine, C. A. Bowers (1935-2017), was a brilliant and prolific writer who wrote 27 books. He cautioned against people applying to themselves the arguments that a formidable opponent or enemy has skillfully created, and successfully used against them. If you use your opponents’ arguments against yourself, he warned, you will have
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