A program from our Partner: RISE Learning for Life 

American Indian Nations and Peoples and the US Constitution

Presenter: Robert J. Miller

Date: Monday October 27, 2025. Time: 10:00

The speaker will address where, why and how tribes are mentioned once explicitly and once implicitly in the Constitution. He will highlight where, why and how Indian individuals are named twice in the Constitution for 20-25 minutes.   He will then spend 35-40 minutes arguing that Indian nations and political theories played a large role in influencing our Founding Fathers when they were drafting the Constitution.

Presenter: Robert Miller (Eastern Shawnee) has been a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 2013. Bob is also the director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. Bob is the Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and an appellate judge for other tribes. He has written over fifty books, book chapters, articles, and editorials on Indian law issues, and spoken at conferences in thirty-two states and Australia, Canada, England, India, and New Zealand.

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