This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

Supreme Court, a decision made significant for the Native American population of the United

States and beyond to do with property, sovereignty, and growth prosperity.

I welcome Terry Anderson, the new book Renewing Indigenous Economies.

Terry joins me from White Selfers Springs, Montana, in the dead center of the state of Montana, where glory lives.

In this instance, however, we're going to look at what Terry and Kathy Rite are recommending needs to be done for the Indian country, the indigenous people, in order to escape the constriction,

visited by law since the beginning of the American Republic.

We begin with the Supreme Court because strikingly, ironically, the Supreme Court decisions have framed the ability of Native Americans of indigenous people to prosper, on land that is now unfathomably well to do.

Terry, a very good evening to you. I read from the Supreme Court editorial in the Wall Street Journal in 2021.

For descending Supreme Court justices warned last year that the majority's decision in McGurt V. Oklahoma would cause chaos in the sooner state and beyond.

Their warning is coming true in the under reported story of the year, as Judge Neil Gorsuch's misguided opinion has created legal and economic havoc.

That is the Wall Street Journal dissenting from the decision by Justice Gorsuch.

This is not liberal conservative. This is not inside, outside.

These are statements made of you read history and interpret history as to the abuse of the indigenous people.

Terry, explain please the pro not the protests of the Wall Street Journal, but what the tension is here for the journal to speak poorly of a man-neil Gorsuch.

They have celebrated in the past.

I think John the tension is twofold, starting at the very top. The tension is between which governments are sovereign and which governments therefore get to have sovereign powers and not including war, of course, but sovereign powers to eradicate disputes, sovereign powers to tax, sovereign powers to regulate property.

The question is, do Native Americans and their nations, as they're called, are they really sovereign nations?

American Indians declare themselves to be sovereign nations.

What went on in the McGurt decision was a debate over whether they truly were sovereign.

At a more fundamental level, the question is, are the people who live on, are the citizens of these nations truly sovereign individuals, individuals with property rights, individuals with the kinds of rights that we wrote into the bill of rights into the Constitution?

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