His class is about one hour, 15 minutes. Mr. Smoak i guess we should go ahead and get started. Quick announcement, just so you are aware of where we are at, tuesday next week we will have the final quiz. I am sure you are happy about that. So please be ready for that at the beginning of class. Today, what i want to do is talk about the Indian Claims Commission as a means of continuing our discussion, the mid20th century, the Indian Claims Commission is something that is often not people dont spend a lot of time on. I think it is important. It certainly point out the link between the resources and land, the controlled resources and land and tribal sovereignty. It also illustrates very clearly the limitations on tribal sovereignty that the federal government puts in place, legislation that might seem to empower indian people, but also has real limitations on. And then we will spend time today talking about one particular claim, the most controversial one, it lasted half a century. That c
We will start with background information, talk about the Indian Claims Commission in general and claims process and how that worked and move into and indepth look at a particular claim. Lets go ahead. Claims commission signed into law come of it was not the first time that claims were made against the United States. They were first heard in 1831 by the Supreme Court. Other mechanisms existed in the u. S. For claims against the government, tribes are not the y groups seeking redress regress. Individual citizens did. 1855, claims followed a particular process, individual acts of congress. Before we Start Talking about those private hills, one thing to keep in mind, the idea of sovereign immunity. She United States and other subscribe to this doctrine, boiling it down, you do not get to sue the sovereign unless the sovereign says you do. You cannot sue the United States unless the United States gives you permission. That is the basis. Before 1855, individuals who had a claim against the
Professor, gregory smoak, talks about the founding of the commission and the modern repercussions of some decisions. His class is about one hour, 15 minutes. Mr. Smoak i guess we should go ahead and get started. Announcement, just so you are aware of where we are at, tuesday next week we will have the final quiz. I am sure you are happy about that. So please be ready for that at the beginning of class. Today what i want to do is talk about the Indian Claims Commission as a means of continuing our discussion, the mid20th century, the Indian Claims Commission is something that is often not people dont spend a lot of time on. I think it is important. It certainly points out the link between the resources and land, the control of resources and land and tribal sovereignty. It also illustrates very clearly the limitations on tribal sovereignty that the federal government puts in place, legislation that might seem to empower indian people, but also has real limitations on. And then we will sp
Before we get started, can everyone please turn off their cell phones . Im sure your ring tones are great. Our guest is better. So we are going to do things a little differently today because this event is being broadcast. Most notably committee q a is going to bump off the bump off a microphone if not this exact microphone, very similar to this one. When we are done speaking, if you could hold your questions until i am interface with a microphone, that would be wonderful to make sure everyone can hear you and that it can be heard on broadcast. Thank you also much for coming to book people tonight. We are an independent bookstore. Your business is the single reason we exist. We could not put on events like this without you. Before we get dirty, for some energy, why do we give ourselves a round of applause . [applause] we are thrilled to be joined tonight by author and act to this, roxanne dunbarortiz. Tonight we will learn about roxannes eighth book, making us all feel lazy, an Indigen
Where the olympic and who coined the term genocide noted in his book on the subject, access rule in occupied europe, he says its often misunderstood it needs to be clear. He was also very important in lobbying for the Genocide Convention. And here is his interpretation. Generally speaking genocide does not necessarily mean the music description of the nation except with accomplish by as killings of all members of the nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming as the destruction of the Central Foundation of the life of National Groups with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The jacket of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social instituti institution, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of these groups. And the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity and, of course, the from the lives of people belonging to such groups. So u. S. History as w