Domination Chronicles 005: The Future of Indians
Episode 5 connects Vine Deloria Jr., contemporary legal scholarship, and the question of the future of Native peoples.
Published on: | Published by: Steven T. Newcomb | Tags: vine-deloria-jr federal-indian-law native-rights podcast
Listen to Episode 5: The Future of Indians on Domination Chronicles.
A conversation sparked by Vine Deloria Jr.'s 1975 article and a 2025 law review article on questions troubling the hosts.
For ILI, the question “the future of Indians” cannot be separated from the legal categories imposed by the United States. This episode uses Deloria’s work and recent scholarship to examine what those categories assume and what they foreclose.
This short resource post is part of an Indigenous Law Institute guide to the Domination Chronicles archive. The goal is to help readers move from ILI’s work on empire, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the right of domination into the podcast conversations where those themes are examined episode by episode.