Federal Indian Policy Legal Scholars

M, and this is the history of federal indian policy and western legal discourse. How m european powers throughout history have defined what itmean to be an indian person. An relationship to a indigenous people's rights to their own land and to self government. And so how do we connect christopher columbus to where we are currently? So when we're looking at the different periods of federalindian policy prior to there being the united states government, we have the colonial period. M, which is 14 92 to 17 76. This is how federal indian law scholars divide that.