![]() ![]() An enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, Professor Williams received his B.A. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Canada presently, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, explores the history of the denial of indigenous peoples’ rights to lands and resources in the West from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans up through Canada’s 21st century treaty negotiations with First Nations in British Columbia. Lead Counsel in the case of the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. In this lecture, based on his recently published book, Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization, Professor Robert A. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of racist violence and colonial dispossession have all been justified by citing Western civilization’s opposition to the differences represented by indigenous tribal peoples. ![]() Canada before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission Savage Anxieties: Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and the Not-So-Special Case of Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. ![]()
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