Last time on Damages, you heard a little bit about how wild rice got rice.

It's part of who we are.

I know it's one of those fundamental core pieces of our identity.

We're part of that creation.

Something had to give us substance.

Something had to give us substance.

And the agreement was we would remember.

And I can look at water and see a spirit there.

The unique case names wild rice, which is sacred in gibweight culture, as the lead plan of.

The wild rice case was the first to be filed in tribal court in the US.

A few non-native communities have also tried to work rights of nature into their laws.

Ohio, Toledo residents passed the Lake Erie bill of rights in 2018, for example.

But it met with swift and severe backlash that ultimately led to the state of Ohio passing a preemptive ban on any rights of nature laws.

In Pennsylvania, some townships have moved to adopt rights of nature into their government charters.

But there too, the opposition has been pretty fierce.

We're going to get into the details of those stories a little later in this season.

But today, we're going to look at the US more broadly.

And why it's so hard to integrate an idea like rights of nature into the American legal system.

And why the idea is so terrifying to industry.

Mr. Olson, are you taking the position that there is no difference

in the First Amendment rights of an individual?

A corporation, after all, is not endowed by its creator with inalienable rights.

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