Honors Program Research Talk: Peter d’Errico on Federal Anti-Indian Law [video]
I think I was as clear and succinct in this talk as I have ever been!
On December 14, 2023, Greenfield MA Community College Honors Program inaugurated its Research Talk series with a presentation by Peter d’Errico.
I think I was as clear and succinct in this talk as I have ever been!
UMass Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies Peter d’Errico discusses how his research focusing on Indigenous and Native American law led him to new intellectual horizons and academic passions.
Watching NOW! So happy to see this!
Thank you again for all you do! Found this:
"Ginsburg’s opinion in this case also rests on the Doctrine of Discovery. That a US court can still today base decisions on a decree given by a Spanish Pope in 1493 that names non-Christians barbarians (or heathens) and thus justifiably subject to death and dispossession is almost too irrational and overtly racist to take seriously. But in the Supreme Court, such seemingly absurd propositions become an overt form of legal violence to the Indigenous peoples whose lives and livelihoods are in the jurist’s hands. Justice Ginsburg’s opinion in this case reads as follows:“…it was not until lately that the Oneidas sought to regain ancient sovereignty over land converted from wilderness to become part of cities like Sherrill” (emphasis mine). Ginsburg invokes here an anti-Indigenous hierarchy of lifeways, rendering Indian land a so-called “wilderness” that had been tamed, “civilized” by Euroamericans. Also referencing the doctrine of laches, Ginsburg argues the ONNY had “slumbered on their rights”—or waited too long to reclaim sovereignty over these lands—an insidious argument considering that state and federal governments had staunchly prevented New York tribes from bringing any land claims to court until 1974."
https://blogs.cornell.edu/cornelluniversityindigenousdispossession/2021/01/04/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-notoriety-in-indian-country-and-cornells-campus-landscape/
Peace to all