Category Archives: legal history

Community Forum: 40 Years after the Fox Decision (June 3, 2019)

Posted on May 21, 2019 by

Here (fox-decision-flyer.pdf):

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Gregory Ablavsky on the Origins of Dual Federalism

Posted on May 14, 2019 by

Gregory Ablavsky has published “Empire States: The Coming of Dual Federalism” in the Yale Law Journal (PDF). Here is the abstract: This Article offers an alternate account of federalism’s late eighteenth-century origins. In place of scholarly and doctrinal accounts that … Continue reading →

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Fletcher: “Indian Children and the Fifth Amendment”

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

Forthcoming in the Montana Law Review’s Browning Symposium issue, available at SSRN here. An excerpt: Many of my first memories revolve around my grandmother Laura Mamagona’s apartment in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She shared the apartment with my uncle Crockett, who was … Continue reading →

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NYTs: “Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Peratrovich, Rights Advocate for Alaskan Natives”

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

Here.

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Reviews of Nick Estes’ “Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance”

Posted on March 10, 2019 by

NPR The Intercept HNN The book webpage from Verso is here.

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The Atlantic [Family Weekly Newsletter]: “America’s Dark History of Native American Assimilation Schools”

Posted on March 9, 2019 by

Here.

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HCN: “Adoption didn’t solve the ‘Indian Problem’”

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

By Susan Harness, here.

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Michigan Radio: “‘We’ve never had justice’: How the Supreme Court rigged land deals against native people”

Posted on October 16, 2018 by

Here. An excerpt: “In many ways, it’s almost like gaslighting,” Wenona Singel says of the Johnson v. M’Intosh case. “You’re learning about … certain rights that are associated with property rights … knowing all along that these rights have not … Continue reading →

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Rock Your Mocs — August 16, 2018 — Historic Fort Wayne (Detroit)

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

Here (pdf):

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New Scholarship on Felix Cohen

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

Here is “‘Felix Cohen Was the Blackstone of Federal Indian Law’: Taking the Comparison Seriously,” by Adrien Habermacher, forthcoming in the British Journal of American Legal Studies. Here is the abstract: This paper explores thoroughly the many facets of Rennard … Continue reading →

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