Today, I'm going to do things a little differently, and I'm going to let my guest introduce herself.

Navi to Ahawa I'm Bovi, Navi American Ahawa I'm Elizabeth Reese, Nanan Bayou Wingay,

Weiong, and Lu.

Hi, I'm Professor Elizabeth Reese.

This is Elizabeth Reese, and there are a couple of things you need to know about her.

The first is that she's a lawyer, actually she's a law professor over at Stanford.

The second is that Elizabeth is indigenous.

My English name is Elizabeth.

Yom Bovi is my name in Tewa, my traditional language, a name I received when I was a baby

to identify me as part of my community, and it translates to Willowflower in English.

For Elizabeth, Yom Bovi, these two identities, Indian lawyer, they are intertwined.

There is a phrase that often gets used, which is that lawyers are like the modern-day

warriors for Indian country.

And I think that's unfortunately very true, that it has been the laws and legal systems

within the United States that have done the work of conquest, especially in the last

few hundred years, and so that has made lawyers sort of the frontline fighters in tribe's

ability to keep their sovereignty, keep their territory, and keep anything else that might

be meaningful to them as self-covered nations.

I called up Elizabeth because I wanted her to explain this case that's been characterized

as the next frontier in tribal sovereignty.

I was arguing in front of the Supreme Court last week.

It's known as Brachene V. Holland.

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