“Understanding the path that the introduction of species, such as peach trees, took through colonization and the role that Indigenous people and their long-term relationship with the environment ...
For Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Americas for thousands of years before the colonization of their lands and the brutal treatment of their people, the recent sweeps have reopened old wounds.
The department cited Elk v. Wilkens, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), in support of its argument. John Elk, an enrolled Winnebago, renounced his allegiance to his tribe, moved off the reservation and tried to ...