This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, and the notable book of the same title that accompanies the exhibition. In this segment, Lindsay G. Robertson speaks on the panel topic, "Bad Acts / Bad Paper." Lindsay G. Robertson is a law professor and the faculty director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy at the University of Oklahoma. He teaches courses in federal Indian law, comparative Indigenous peoples law, constitutional law, and legal history. Robertson previously taught federal Indian law at the University of Virginia School of Law and the George Washington University National Law Center. He serves as special justice on the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and is the author of the award-winning Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands.
This symposium was webcast and recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. on September 18. 2014.