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14 Mich. St. J. Int'l L. 521 (2006)
Parallel Worlds: A Sideways Approach to Promoting Indigenous-Nonindigenous Trade and Sustainable Development

handle is hein.journals/mistjintl14 and id is 525 raw text is: PARALLEL WORLDS: A SIDEWAYS APPROACH TO
PROMOTING INDIGENOUS-NONINDIGENOUS
TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Valerie J. Phillips*
Whole Indian nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the
white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those
wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delawares? They have
been reduced to a mere shadow of theirformer greatness. We had hoped that
the white man would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that
hope is gone. They have passed the mountains, and have settled upon
Cherokee land. They wish to have that action sanctioned by treaty. When that
is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the
Cherokees. New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country, which the
Cherokees and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and
the remnant of Ani-Yunwiya, THE REAL PEOPLE, once so great and
formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness.
There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again
behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to
point out any further retreat for the miserable Cherokees, the extinction of
the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run all risks, and
incur all consequences, rather than submit to further loss of our country?
Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt or fight. As for
me, I have my young warriors about me. We will have our lands. A-
WANINSKI, I have spoken. '
INTRODUCTION
Given centuries of Euro-American unsustainable development, as
well as 500 years of colonialism within the Americas, it is unlikely that
contemporary settler institutions, governments, and private actors are
going to take either sustainable development or indigenous peoples
*  Valerie J. Phillips is a visiting associate professor at St. Thomas University School
of Law and an assistant professor at the University of Tulsa College Law. Special thanks are
due to Professor Kevin Kennedy for inviting me to speak before the First Annual Conference
on International Trade in the Americas, Trade and Foreign Investment in the Americas: The
Impact on Indigenous Peoples and the Environment on the Taking Sustainable Development and
the Interests of Indigenous Peoples Seriously in Future Trade Negotiations panel. The opinions
expressed herein are entirely the author's.
1. Tsiyugvnsini (Dragging Canoe), http://victorian.fortunecity.com/rothko/420/
aniyuntikwalaski/people/canoe.html; see, e.g., CoLIN G. CALLOWAY, THE AMERICAN REVOLU-
TION IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CRISIS AND DIVERsrrY IN NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 182-212
(1995).

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