Domination Chronicles: The Future of Indians

This episode begins with a striking juxtaposition: a 1975 article by Vine Deloria Jr. and a contemporary law review article that raises questions about eminent domain and Native futures. Newcomb and d’Errico use that convergence to ask what happens when originally free peoples are pressed to imagine their futures through the very domination system that attacks their existence.

The conversation is less about prediction than orientation. What counts as a future when the available legal categories already assume U.S. superiority over Native nations? How do terms such as property, sovereignty, development, and jurisdiction shape what can be imagined? By returning to Deloria and to current legal debates, the episode asks listeners to consider whether Native futures can be discussed honestly without first naming the system that confines those futures. It is a reminder that the struggle over land is also a struggle over imagination.

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