By Walter Echo-Hawk
Published by Fulcrum Publishing (2013)
In 2007 the United Nations approved the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. United States endorsement in 2010 ushered in a new era of Indian law and policy. This book highlights steps that the United States, as well as other nations, must take to provide a more just society and heal past injustices committed against indigenous peoples.
Walter R. Echo-Hawk, an attorney for the Native American Rights Fund for more than thirty-five years, is the author of In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided and the award-winning Battlefields and Burial Grounds.