Permanent Homelands Through Treaties with the United States: Restoring Faith in the Tribal Nation-U.S. Relationship in Light of the McGirt Decision

As the permanent homelands for both Tribal Nations and the United States were established by treaties, executive orders, congressional land recognition acts and settlement acts, this basic foundation for the lands within the U.S. should be taught at all levels of education. The lands comprising Turtle Island are the sacred homelands of many Tribal Nations. More land acknowledgments are being incorporated into mainstream U.S. educational institutions and other entities. “An Indigenous land acknowledgment involves making a statement recognizing the traditional territories of the Indigenous peoples who have lived on the land before the arrival of settlers.” With a greater sense of the importance of the rule of law, the homelands of the Tribal Nations and the United States may one day be home to peoples of perpetual peace of friendship on both sides of the treaties. The ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma was one step closer to that promise.