The Department of Sociology invites the 91ÑÇÉ« community to attend its 2026 Indigenous Lecture on Wednesday, October 7 from 2:30 - 5 p.m. The lecture, The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Understanding American Law Through an Indigenous Lens, will be delivered by Keith Richotte Jr. He will examine how the U.S. doctrine of plenary power—granting sweeping authority over Native American nations—came to be understood as constitutional, despite its origins in deeply flawed and outdated assumptions.
Keith Richotte, Jr. is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians where he has served as an Associate Justice on the Turtle Mountain Tribal Court of Appeals since 2009. He is also the Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. 
Register for the event online.