The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because Congress took the land from the tribes, ignores their sacred connections to it, their cultural connections… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
In fact, George Washington had been an Indian fighter since the French and Indian War. And a lot of folks, particularly in the red… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource development,… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
What John Marshall says is that right of occupancy can be taken away by purchase, conquest or any other means. So the reason that… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that Indians are… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype. — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
In fact, Native American Rights Fund has a project called the Supreme Court Project. And quite frankly, it's focused on trying to keep cases… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share
