Gabe Galanda joined a class of Harvard University students last Wednesday to deliver a lecture titled, “Tribal Neocolonialism & the Transmutation of Indigenous Kinship Societies.”
Gabe addressed Professor Eric Henson’s class, “Native Americans in the Twenty-First Century.” His presentation provided a history of Indigenous kinship dictates, federal Indian per-capita law and policy, and tribal disenrollment and enrollment moratoria.
His conclusion: “Indigenous kinship dictates have eroded. Venal exclusion has supplanted Indigenous belonging.” Download his slides here.
Gabe Galanda is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman in Seattle. He belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.
