Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Menominee and doing so it continues

and doing so it continues to nurture the bees and give us healing medicines

“and they could not lift them up again

Zitkala-A a recorded this Yankton Sioux story more than 100 years ago

their oldest daughter

Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Menominee and doing so it continuesRobert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned "like a loaded weapon" in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing