Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese (@yunpovi.bsky.social)

I have a new short article out. My take on the last 50 years of Federal Indian Policy and the strange crossroads we are at. TLDR: Paternalism was bad. Reversing it--aka the fed. gov. incrementally giving up it's power--is hard. And it's not something Trump likes doing.

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THE THREE PHASES OF THE TRIBAL SELF-DETERMINATION ERA AND THE PHASE OUT OF FEDERAL PATERNALISM - Columbia Law Review [Indians’] foremost plight is our transparency. People can tell just by looking at us what we want, what should be done to help us, how we feel, and what a ‘real’ Indian is really like . . . . In so m... https://live-columbia-law-review.pantheonsite.io/content/the-three-phases-of-the-tribal-self-determination-era-and-the-phase-out-of-federal-paternalism/