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tannerallread.bsky.social
Milanovich Fellow, UCLA Law | Ph.D. Candidate in History, Stanford | J.D., Stanford Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
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I have an article forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review! And now it’s up on SSRN. Comments, suggestions, and criticism are welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This will be amazing!! RSVP now to hold your spot- 6 brilliant constitutional law and history scholars discussing how the stories we tell about the past shape our future. MCLE credit available. @acslaw.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social @olatij.bsky.social @fpeterson.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Very important article and 🧵 from @briandelay.bsky.social!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

It's not a splashy oped in the NYT, but please, I did 16 years of legal and historical research to understand the legislative intent and historical/political motivations for the Reconstruction Amendments. 28 pages, ungated, written accessibly for smart lay audiences. 👇

submitted 27 days ago • 27 comments

Come join us if you’re in the Bay Area! It’s going to be a great event with an amazing lineup of federal judges, Indian law scholars, and practitioners!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I caution everyone, including the authors of the NYT oped, to project present day legal categories like "illegal immigration" backwards in time when the immigration managment regime was much different and targets & rationales of exclusion distinct from the present as well.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Another court, another ruling against Trump’s efforts to overrule birthright citizenship. Still they are relying on a misreading of ELK V. Wilkins (1884). Here’s why Trump is so wrong: michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

PLSI is a life-changing program! I would not have the friends and Indian Law network I have today without it. Highly recommend that Native students prepping to go to law school in the fall apply!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

SCOTUS just granted cert in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond, an appeal of a state court ruling barring OK from approving a Catholic school as a public charter school. Read Aaron Saiger's analysis of the OK ruling in @statecourtreport.bsky.social statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Great thread from @evanbernick.bsky.social laying out the issues with both the DOJ’s reliance on Elk v. Wilkins and the reporting on Native birthright citizenship.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

three step process for reporting about Native citizenship in connection with the unconstitutional birthright citizenship EO: 1. Stop. 2. Talk to a scholar of Indian law, preferably a Native scholar. 3. Write carefully.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

“Reporters Talk To Indian Law Scholars About Indian Law Challenge Instead of Just Parroting Trump Lawyers and Flailing” Challenge, a continuing series until someone meets it www.yahoo.com/news/excludi...

submitted 61 days ago • 13 comments

Journo: the birthright citizenship clause pertaining to Native Americans, why Indians were left outside of its scope, foisting US citizenship on Indigenous peeps is complex. Consult experts @tannerallread.bsky.social @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social @kbruyneel.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be that person, but I have written on this topic albeit on the topic of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), claims of race based discrimination, and the application of the 14th Amendment to American Indians. Considering history and tradition here 😬 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Since it's website official now, I'm excited to announce that I'm a new Richard M. Milanovich Fellow in Law at UCLA Law! For the next 2 years, I will be working with the Native Nations Law & Policy Center while writing Native law and legal history scholarship. law.ucla.edu/faculty/facu...

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment

🗃️ I've been thinking about the stupidity of that IHE piece for the last 24 hours so here is a 🧵 of 10 exceptional untenured scholars doing innovative & exciting work in pre-1900 U.S. history. 1. I can't wait to read John Bardes' forthcoming book: uncpress.org/book/9781469... 1/11

submitted 417 days ago • 1 comment

Run, don't walk, to read @tannerallread.bsky.social 's article on the theory of "state supremacy" that has its origins in the 1830s Native American Removal Era. That idea in the present, unmoored from its racist historical + political context, is still guiding SCOTUS decisions on Native sovereignty.

submitted 468 days ago • 1 comment

Ecstatic to finally have my article, “The Specter of Indian Removal,” in print! And if you haven’t read it yet, you can access it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 475 days ago • 1 comment

Important new paper from @tannerallread.bsky.social building a growing record against Castro-Huerta papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 484 days ago • 2 comments

It’s finally here!! My first solo-authored article, “The Specter of Indian Removal: The Persistence of State Supremacy Arguments in Federal Indian Law,” is out in Columbia Law Review! columbialawreview.org/content/the-...

submitted 510 days ago • 1 comment