Robert A. Williams, Jr

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…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

In fact, George Washington had been an Indian fighter since the French and Indian War. And a lot of folks, particularly in…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

What John Marshall says is that right of occupancy can be taken away by purchase, conquest or any other means. So the…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

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.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

In fact, Native American Rights Fund has a project called the Supreme Court Project. And quite frankly, it's focused on trying to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is continued to be cited today by the Supreme Court. Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the most…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Many of the situations that we've talked about whether it's the San Carlos, whether it's the Navajo fighting for their land rights…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

One of the prime backers of land bill was a Republican Congressman, a Paul Gosar. And when he was challenged by an…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr