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American Indians

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History

What If Native American Tribes Had Gotten Their Own State?

Historian Donald L. Fixico explores a forgotten moment in Oklahoma history and its lessons about liberty.

Ilia Murtazashvili | 3.9.2025 6:00 AM

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Race

Brickbat: Colorblind Cash

Charles Oliver | 10.18.2024 4:00 AM

American Indians

"Brackeen's Third Sovereign"

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.24.2023 2:25 PM

American Indians

"What's Missing in the Brackeen Argument: An Indian Affairs Clause"

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.23.2022 2:07 PM

Law & Government

Greg Ablavsky Responds to Rob Natelson's "Cite Check"

Will Baude |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.13.2022 9:59 PM

Originalism

The original meaning of the Indian Commerce Clause

Professor Natelson versus Professor Ablavsky

David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.11.2022 12:22 PM

Supreme Court

The Indian Commerce Clause: The Natelson/Ablavsky Debate

Will Baude |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.17.2022 12:27 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Sugar, Sugar

Charles Oliver | 2.25.2022 4:00 AM

Crime

This Week's Podcasts

Discussions of this week's decisions in Cooley and Van Buren, and the Warren Court case of Katzenbach v. Morgan

Will Baude |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.4.2021 11:38 AM

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Death Penalty

The Trump Administration Executes Its Fourth Federal Prisoner in Two Months

A new modern record for putting inmates to death

Scott Shackford | 8.26.2020 7:15 PM

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Death Penalty

The Trump Administration Prepares to Set a Modern Record for Federal Executions

Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to die Wednesday, over the objections of the Navajo Nation to which he belongs and on whose land the murder took place.

Scott Shackford | 8.25.2020 1:50 PM

Volokh Conspiracy

BREAKING: Supreme Court Decides Trump Financial Records Cases and Fate of Eastern Oklahoma (Updated)

The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's claims of immunity, but reaffirmed limits on investigatory powers, and ruled in favor of Native American tribal claims against Oklahoma.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.9.2020 10:51 AM

Volokh Conspiracy

Should federal Indian law be textualist?

Todd Henderson on the legal status of Eastern Oklahoma

Will Baude |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.31.2019 4:56 PM

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Glenn Garvin TV Reviews

Predator Documents Child Sex Abuse—and the Lackluster Response—in Indian Communities

Rather than investigating claims against a pediatrician, he was shuffled around. Sound familiar?

Glenn Garvin | 2.8.2019 3:00 PM

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Marijuana

South Dakota Jury Acquits Tribal Cannabis Consultant of All Charges

The verdict is a rebuke to an attorney general who helped doom plans for a marijuana resort on an Indian reservation.

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2017 8:00 AM

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Pipeline

Army Corps of Engineers Halts Work on Dakota Access Pipeline

Standing Rock protesters succeed in blocking Bakken oil pipeline route

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2016 5:45 PM

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Politics

Thanksgiving Tragedy

Property rights saved the Pilgrims from starvation; a lack of property rights keeps Indians in poverty today.

John Stossel | 11.23.2016 12:01 AM

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American Indians

When Art Made by an American Indian Doesn't Count as Being 'American Indian-Made'

A lawsuit challenges Oklahoma's new law prohibiting some American Indian artists from calling their artwork what it is.

Eric Boehm | 11.22.2016 12:34 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Indian Country

Charles Oliver | 8.23.2016 4:00 AM

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American Indians

40th Anniversary of Pine Ridge Shootout

Leonard Peltier serving a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents on Pine Ridge reservation in 1975.

Ed Krayewski | 6.26.2015 6:04 PM

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Policy

South Dakota Indian Reservation Becomes First to Approve Pot Sales

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe plans to offer marijuana as early as this fall.

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2015 8:49 AM

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Culture

Friday A/V Club: Shedding Their White Identities

Rachel Dolezal wasn't the first.

Jesse Walker | 6.12.2015 9:33 AM

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Policy

Will Casino Country Become Cannabis Country?

Indian tribes mull marijuana business opportunities.

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2015 8:30 AM

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Policy

From Casinos To Cannabis: Indian Tribes Eye Pot Profits

Tribal leaders explore the business opportunities created by the erosion of marijuana prohibition.

Jacob Sullum | 3.13.2015 11:56 AM

Native Americans

Paradox: Christian Creationism Bad - Native American Creationism Good

Ronald Bailey | 10.21.2014 3:31 PM

Policy

Happy Anniversary, George A. Custer. You Didn't Learn From Interventionism Either.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.25.2014 3:52 PM

Policy

When a Citizens' Dividend Sets Off Citizenship Disputes

Another living example of a basic-income policy.

Jesse Walker | 2.3.2014 2:48 PM

Politics

Gay Marriages Remain Banned in Navajo Nation, Including Portion Located in New Mexico

Some activists looking to repeal a 2005 tribal law

Reason Staff | 12.31.2013 9:10 AM

Politics

Sen. Majority Leader Reid Joins Call to Change Name of Washington Redskins

Should be more concerns about sports subsidies

Reason Staff | 12.19.2013 6:50 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Hears Case About Lawsuits Against Indian Tribes

Could affect commercial and gaming activities within sovereign territories

Reason Staff | 12.2.2013 2:10 PM

Politics

Government Shutdown Has Special Impacts on Indian Tribes

Funding cut off for additional services

Reason Staff | 10.2.2013 5:40 PM

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Culture

American Apocalypse

Never-ending predictions that the world is about to end

Jesse Walker | 12.27.2012 7:00 AM

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Culture

Deadly Colonialist Fables

What dueling origin myths from the 19th century tell us about ourselves

Amy H. Sturgis | 11.21.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Russell Means, R.I.P.

Brian Doherty | 10.22.2012 3:52 PM

Culture

Russell Means is Dead

American Indian activist died from esophageal cancer

Reason Staff | 10.22.2012 12:44 PM

American Indians

Native American Tribe Sues Canada For Not Adjusting Treaty Payments for Inflation

A loon doesn't go as far as it did a hundred years ago

Reason Staff | 10.3.2012 2:49 PM

Politics

Scott Brown Staffers Mock Elizabeth Warren With War Whoops, Tomahawk Chops

Garrett Quinn | 9.25.2012 1:27 PM

Politics

The Free Reservation Project

Jesse Walker | 12.20.2007 11:18 AM

American Indians

America the Beautiful: On Whose Land?

Part II

Rosalie Nichols | 1.1.1971 12:00 PM

American Indians

America the Beautiful: On Whose Land?

Rosalie Nichols | 5.1.1970 12:00 PM

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