Indigenous People's Day: ‘Legal’ Theft Of Indigenous Land | Peter D’Errico | TMR Classic
The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples: Deciphering Federal Anti-Indian Law
Understand how the U.S. legal foundation, rooted in colonial doctrine, continues to justify federal domination over Indigenous territories. This discussion reveals the deep, obscured political utility of centuries-old legal concepts currently impacting contemporary land battles.
Short Summary
- Establish the foundational link between 15th-century Christian discovery doctrines and modern U.S. land claims.
- John Marshall’s legal rulings systematically downgraded Indigenous nations to a sub-human class unable to hold true dominion over their homelands.
- Modern jurists, spanning ideological divides, perpetuate this doctrine by citing precedent while ignoring its religious and colonial genesis.
- The ongoing struggle over Indigenous sovereignty is fundamentally a battle for land control, which has historically been used to assert federal supremacy over states.
This is an analysis of Professor Peter D’Errico’s book, detailing the evolution of colonial legal justifications for dispossession, from papal edicts to contemporary Supreme Court ambiguity, explaining why land remains the central feature in U.S. federal power projection.
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Top Comments (10)
Great show. I’m Mexican American - mixed Otomi, Rarámuri, and Pima. Colonization changed us but many of our foods, culture. Etc. are Indigenous. My grandpa spoke an Indigenous language. My sons and husband are also part Tlingit. My husband’s great grandma was forced into a Boarding school. She was very hard to get to know. These events changed her. We are still here. 💙
Sam is clearly well read on the subject, great watching his enthusiasm in the disucssion.
Happy Monday people 😀😀😀😀
An informed and clearly genuinely interested interviewer, with an expert, somewhat surprised surely, interviewee. What a depressingly rare and fantastic thing to see.
Thank you so much for this 🥹✊🏾✨🪶🧡🩵❤️
Love you Sam!!❤
Very sweet and tragic conversation. Native American history is so overlooked and its heartening to see such passion about the topic.
I appreciate this knowledge you have shared.❤
what an outstandingly excellent and interesting interview. please have Mr D‘Errico on again soon! 👏
Sam is such a great interviewer. His questions are so insightful.
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Top Comments (10)
Great show. I’m Mexican American - mixed Otomi, Rarámuri, and Pima. Colonization changed us but many of our foods, culture. Etc. are Indigenous. My grandpa spoke an Indigenous language. My sons and husband are also part Tlingit. My husband’s great grandma was forced into a Boarding school. She was very hard to get to know. These events changed her. We are still here. 💙
Sam is clearly well read on the subject, great watching his enthusiasm in the disucssion.
Happy Monday people 😀😀😀😀
An informed and clearly genuinely interested interviewer, with an expert, somewhat surprised surely, interviewee. What a depressingly rare and fantastic thing to see.
Thank you so much for this 🥹✊🏾✨🪶🧡🩵❤️
Love you Sam!!❤
Very sweet and tragic conversation. Native American history is so overlooked and its heartening to see such passion about the topic.
I appreciate this knowledge you have shared.❤
what an outstandingly excellent and interesting interview. please have Mr D‘Errico on again soon! 👏
Sam is such a great interviewer. His questions are so insightful.