The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of the Status of the American Indian in Western Legal Thought pg.7-8

Tribal peoples have historically existed in a precarious, often violent relationship with the governments and legal systems that decide the issues affecting their cultural survival.  By revealing the ideological bases of our earliest conceptions of the tribe, and how those conceptions helped rationalize the iniquitous treatment the Indian received at the hands of his European conquerors, it may be possible to demonstrate the urgent need to rethink the doctrinal foundations of our conceptions respecting the status of the tribe in modern society.  -The Medieval and Renaissance Origins of the Status of the American Indian in Western Legal Thought by Robert A. Williams, Jr.    Pg.7-8