They won in the Supreme Court. The president let the ruling die.

Episode 4 of Committed to Misunderstanding proves that the forced removal of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands was not a tragic inevitability. It was a policy — with decision makers, documented motives, and a paper trail.

We trace the legal doctrine issued by the Catholic Church in 1452 still being cited in U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 2005. We examine the treaty signed without authority, opposed by fifteen thousand petitioners, ratified by one vote. And through a therapist's lens, we examine what it does to a people when you sever them from the land where their ancestors are buried.

Not as metaphor. As clinical reality.

Full episode Friday.

Committed to Misunderstanding — hosted by Chuck Lenahan, licensed clinical mental health therapist. History is the longest record of human behavior we have. We're going to read it correctly. Because we have the receipts.