EXAMINING ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023 4:00 PM (PST)

Robertson Gym 1000A

Presented by UCSB’S Walter H. Capps Center

UC Irvine professor of Anthropology Justin B. Richland gave a lecture about his recent book Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements. Richland examined the language employed by Native American Tribes and U.S. government agencies in meetings between them. Richland showed how Tribes conduct these meetings using language that demonstrates their commitment to nation-to-nation interdependency, while federal agents approach these meetings with the assumption that federal law is supreme.