Episode 52: History of Federal Indian Law Part 3 - US Fiduciary Relationship & Abrogation of Treaties

Host: Rick

Guest: Dr. Lindsay Robertson

-Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law

-Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy

-Sam K. Viersen Family Foundation Presidential Professor

In this episode we cover the unbalanced power of US government’s fiduciary relationship with tribal sovereignty, and abrogation of treaties with Native communities. We cover the Medicine Lodge Treaty and LoneWolf v Hitchcock (1903).

We would like to apologize for the audio in this episode, we had technical difficulty during recording.

Intro Music: “Turning Into Me” by Jericho Salt