Kristen A. Carpenter has published “Living The Sacred: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom” in the Harvard Law Review, reviewing Michael McNally’s “Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment.”
Book Review
NPR Review of “The Firekeeper’s Daughter”
Here.
High Country News: “Tribal nations face continued voter suppression”
Here.
HCN Interview of Hillary Hoffmann and Monte Mills on Their New Book “A Third Way: Decolonizing the Laws of Indigenous Cultural Protection”
Here.
WSJ Review of Stephen Graham Jones, “The Only Good Indians”
Here.
The Atlantic: “The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears”
Book review of “Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory” by Claudio Saunt.
Here.
David Treuer’s Review of “Yellow Bird” in NYTs.
Here.
Fletcher Review of John Borrows “Law’s Indigenous Ethics” in Transmotion Journal
New Issue of Transmotion Journal: Native American Narratives in a Global Context
Examples of articles and papers:
Fletcher Book Review — ” Protectors: The Indian Trust and Killers of the Flower Moon”
My review of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon has been published in the Michigan Law Review. You can download the paper here or here.
An excerpt:
Killers of the Flower Moon will be an eye-opener for those who are not aware of what it means for the United States to shirk its duties to Indian people. Osage people alive today are direct victims of the Osage Reign of Terror (pp. 280–91). Grann’s book tells an interesting story about the early days of the FBI, the development of early criminal investigation techniques, and the slow death of frontier injustice and corruption. It is a story ripe for a suspenseful and entertaining film. But Killers of the Flower Moon could be so much more. For whatever reason—be it the fame of the author, the focus on major American historical figures like J. Edgar Hoover, or the fact that the FBI is investigating the current president—Grann’s work has the attention of much of the American public. Killers of the Flower Moon should be a call to action for the United States to take its duty of protection seriously, but instead the stories of real American Indian lives are a framing mechanism for a true-crime FBI story. Indian tribes standing against the political winds that threaten the trust relationship, the duty of protection the ancestors negotiated for in the nineteenth century, deserve more. The thousands of American Indian women who suffer sexual assaults every year and the thousands of American Indian children who witness and suffer violence every year deserve much more.
Continuing thanks to Wilson Pipestem and Alex Skibine.
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