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Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men (2016) This report studied the intersectional effects of violence on Indigenous communities.
Webinar - Affirmative Action's Origins and Legacies (2023) In this webinar, UNL Law Faculty Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis, and Catherine Wilson provide an in-depth look at affirmative action, delving into its origins and tracing its impact to the present day.
Webinar - Color-Evasive Love and Freedom from Violence in (Neo)Liberal Adoption Laws (2025) In this webinar, Professor Kit Myers of the University of California, Merced, discusses race, adoption, and family in the United States with Dr. Donna D. Anderson and her And Justice For All class.
Webinar - The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution (2025) In this webinar, Professor Keith Richotte, Jr., of the University of Arizona discusses the Supreme Court's understanding of Native America from an Indigenous perspective with Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky and her Rights & Wrongs in American Legal History class.
Webinar - U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty (2023) In this webinar, Professor Ned Blackhawk of Yale University discusses his recent book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which argues for the centrality of Native people and their nations throughout American history from the colonial era to the present, as well as tribal sovereignty and federal Indian law in the United States.
Worcester v. Georgia (1832) In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee people had sovereign powers as a nation. The case arose after a Protestant missionary was convicted of residing among the Cherokee Nation in Gwinnett County, Georgia, without a license from the state. The Supreme Court vacated Worcester's conviction, stating that individual states did not have authority over Native American affairs