Audrey Mense, a recent Chicago-Kent law grad, has published her student note titled “We Could Tell You, But Then We’d Have to Kill You: How Indigenous Cultural Secrecy Impedes the Protection of Natural Cultural Heritage in the United States” in the Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Regardless of the merits of this paper, I have to say this might be the first time I’ve ever heard “Indigenous cultural secre[ts]” likened to military secrets. I don’t think I like it.

Frankly, it is usually the other way around –“Give us your secrets or we’ll kill you.” Or something like that.