Episode 009: McGirt v. Oklahoma: Revealing and Concealing Domination

Our conversation moves beyond McGirt into other claims of a right of domination—including claims of “bureaucratic expertism” that seek domination over all people. We say that free existence requires free inquiry into all claims of a right of domination.

LISTEN | WATCH | SUBSCRIBE

Red Thought Project | Haaland v. Brackeen

HISTORY and context of taking all children away from their tribal families

See more videos: https://www.redthought.org/

“TO RISE ABOVE THE COMMON MOLD”

From Peter D'Errico's blog

Osage / Cherokee Professor Rennard Strickland passed on January 5, 2021. He was a major figure in law and legal history, a law teacher and Dean at several schools, and a major contributor to Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

He wrote this essay fifty years ago, based on a speech before the Tenth Circuit Roundtable of the Law Student Division of the ABA in October 1974.  His essay was published in the same issue as mine on “The Law is Terror Put Into Words”.

Strickland said his law student audience were “preparing to move into the mad world of the twentieth century.” He called on them “to free us from the traditional molds of thinking and to come face to face with the reality of this changing world.”

His description of the problems they faced and his advice to them are as relevant in 2025 as in 1975:

He said:

“It is not enough to hold all of the ‘right views’ and espouse all the ‘right causes’ without asking why are these the ‘right views’ and the ‘right causes’…. Your challenge as young lawyers is to …lead us into an age of ‘reality, reason, and common sense.’"

University of Oklahoma College of Law Photo

And I will add that we lawyers as public policy leaders in executive and legislative posts have not let down this tradition of “credulity, superstition, and fanaticism.” Your challenge as young lawyers is to break out of this mold, free us from the limitations of your age, and lead us into an age of “reality, reason, and common sense.”

 

KEEP READING:  https://peterderrico.substack.com/p/in-memory-rennard-strickland-to-rise

John Kane interviews Peter d'Errico

Author of "Federal Anti-Indian Law", Peter d'Errico joins John Kane to talk about his work as it relates to the Osage Murders, Native gaming and US domination.

More Episodes 

Peter d'Errico Speaks at Parliament of the World's Religions (video)

 BLOG POST

'Christian discovery' and the legal entrapment of Indigenous Peoples

 

MAPPING THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY (podcast)

My takeaway from this excellent podcast: The Supreme Court just makes up rules ... and it has all along...and IT'S CRAZY! And it's been going on since the invention of the DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY. - Trace, Blog Editor

MAPPING THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY: Johnson v. McIntosh and Federal Anti-Indian Law with Peter d’Errico

The goal of this Podcast is to help identify these systems of domination that have been sustained by greed and power, through the subjugation of human beings and the natural world.  

Philip P. Arnold and Sandra Bigtree, “S02E03 - Johnson v M’intosh and Federal Anti-Indian Law with Peter d’Errico,” Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery (Podcast), July 13, 2023. https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season2/episode-03/.

⤓ Download a transcript of the Episode as a PDF // LISTEN

Cutting through the Brackeen v Haaland case

 

Was it a victory?

Read my friend Peter (law professor) on Substack.

Cutting Through the US Claim of a Right of Domination over Indigenous People: An Analysis of Haaland v. Brackeen

https://peterderrico.substack.com/i/130980867/haaland-v-brackeen-misplaced-celebration

READ