Gabe Galanda has published "Into the Void: Indigenous American Civil Rights," in the February edition of Washington Association of Justice’s Trial News.
Gabe explains how, over the last two centuries, a great many duty-based Indigenous kinship societies have transmuted into rights-based neocolonial entities and human rights violators, rendering Indigenous citizens the lone naturally born Americans who do not universally enjoy civil rights protection.
His article can be read here. Here’s an excerpt:
Federal law superimposed an individual rights regime upon Indigenous societies beginning with early nineteenth-century treaties, which conferred personal rights in the form of lands and annuity monies as modes of assimilation. Indigenous societies and tribal nations have struggled with neocolonial, rights-based governance regimes ever since.
