California Law Review Circuit

Alex Pearl on “How to Be an Authentic Indian” — A Comment on the Washington Football Team Name Controversy

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Alex Pearl has published “How to Be an Authentic Indian” in the California Law Review Circuit.

Here is the abstract:

The mascot and team name of the Washington, D.C. professional football team is making headlines. What do Authentic Indians really think about it? This essay clears the air by replacing the liberal media talking points with an actual viewpoint from Indian Country. This perspective gives an inside view into the significant efforts to maintain longstanding traits of “Indian-ness” against an onslaught of political correctness gone mad.    

This, as you will see, is satire.

Bethany Berger on Race, Descent, and Tribal Membership

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Bethany Berger has published “Race, Descent, and Tribal Membership” (PDF) in the California Law Review Circuit. Here is the description:

Connecticut School of Law Professor Bethany R. Berger looks at the relationship between descent-based tribal citizenship requirements and race or racism. She argues that tribal citizenship laws that require Indian or tribal descent are generally neither the product nor the source of racism in federal Indian law and policy, and instead are moral, legal, and consistent with federal and international norms.

Fletcher on American Indian Legal Scholarship

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The California Law Review Circuit published my meta-paper, American Indian Legal Scholarship and the Courts: Heeding Frickey’s Call. PDF here.

The description:

Michigan State University College of Law Professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher examines the late Berkeley Law Professor Philip P. Frickey’s call for more grounded and empirical American Indian legal scholarship. Fletcher analyzes the state of American Indian legal scholarship that led to Frickey’s call and the impact that Frickey’s call has had since.