At Yale, Gabe Galanda Teaches of Neocolonial Tribal Per-capita and Disenrollment Practices

Gabe Galanda joined an engaged class of Yale Law School students on Wednesday to discuss the “Pros and Cons” of Indian Gaming with Stephen Pevar’s “Contemporary Issues in American Indian Law” class.

Gabe’s presentation focused on the “cons” of Indian gaming, providing a history of Indigenous kinship rules, federal Indian per-capita payments, and tribal disenrollment. His slides are here.

Gabe Galanda is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman in Seattle. He belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.