American Indians
Confederate statues should be taken down, we’ve been told, because the Confederates were ”traitors” and ”losers.” Confederate statues were canaries in the coal mine. Now all American history, and with it the legitimacy of the American nation, is under attack. A recent target: General “Mad Anthony” Wayne of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. For the […]
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McGirt doctrine returns to the Supreme Court where it began, only to be bounced back down. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published August 12th, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
Remember how the Washington Redskins lost their team name and are now called the ”Commanders”? There’s a movement to bring back the Redskins name. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published August 10th, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
Many Oklahoma Indian tribes issue their own license plates. Having those license plates is now becoming a license to get out of paying tolls on Oklahoma turnpikes. And this is not even directly related to Oklahoma’s McGirt fiasco, although it could be exacerbated by it. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan […]
By statehood in 1907, all Indian reservations in Oklahoma were abolished. But the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision in 2020 declared that the Creek reservation is still, at least for criminal law purposes, a reservation. This was expanded to also refer to the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Quapaw tribes, which are now also said to have reservations. […]
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The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team, a farm team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. So with all the talk about team mascots with American Indian names, this of course becomes an issue. The Indians of Indianapolis have decided, for now anyway, to retain the name, and they’ve made a deal with an Indiana […]
The Minnesota state flag is under attack, and may have to be changed. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published February 3rd, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
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In a recent Oklahoma court case, the McGirt precedent did not apply to the Kickapoo Tribe. At least not for now For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published January 21st, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
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Two years ago, in McGirt v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court ruled that the Muscogee Tribe of Oklahoma still has an Indian reservation. This led to the current legal understanding that six Oklahoma tribes have reservations, comprising 43% of Oklahoma’s territory, including the city of Tulsa. It’s a preposterous ruling which may leads to all sorts […]
Two years ago, the Supreme Court imposed a revolutionary ruling on the state of Oklahoma, and it’s still unraveling. In McGirt v. Oklahoma, and its companion case Sharp v. Murphy, the Supreme Court decreed that the Creek (Muscogee) Indian reservation had never been abolished and still exists. That understanding was expanded to declare that the […]
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