American Indians and tribal nations have been too long overlooked in the teaching and scholarship of the history of the United States. I have written about the crucial role that indigenous peoples and nations played, for example, in the Lewis and Clark expedition and in American Manifest Destiny.  Robert J. Miller, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas [...]

On Sunday August 29, I was on a live two hour show on the internet discussing the Doctrine of Discovery, as Europeans applied that international law around the world. I also talked about my new book “Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies” which compares the uses of Discovery in Australia, [...]

I was taped on a cable TV show in Portland Oregon in October 2009. If you want to watch an abbreviated version of the show, the producers of the show posted it on youtube.

I will be speaking Nov. 6, at 3 pm, at a conference at the University of Nebraska Law School in Lincoln Neb. I will also speak at 11:30 am that day to a Native student organization. Nov. 7, I will speak in Sioux City at an event for the Nebraska Indian Community College. Sat. Nov. [...]

In October I will be giving talks back east about the Doctrine of Discovery and speaking at a conference at Albany Law School entitled “God and the Land.” Oct. 1 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Oct. 2 Albany Law School, Albany, NY. I’ll be speaking about Indian religious rights and access to sacred sites on public [...]

In September I will be speaking at the following venues about Indian law issues and my book: September 3, Lacey, Washington, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service training, 9-11 am. Sept. 12, Lawrence, Kansas, Lewis & Clark Diplomacy Symposium, University of Kansas, Bob Dole Center. Sept. 12, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Ks. Sept. 16, International [...]

Professor Miller was interviewed on three different radio programs this weekend about his book Native America, Discovered and Conquered and the comments Pope Benedict made in Brazil May 13 and his “apology” of May 23.   1.  With host Albert Cata May 26 on Native America Radio Live on Santa Fe, New Mexico’s KSFR-FM. 2. With host Robin Carneen on NAMAPAHH First People’s [...]

Professor Miller spoke many times about Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery in the Tent of Many Voices, the travelling exhibit that the National Park Service Corps II took along the Lewis & Clark trail across the country and back in 2003-006.  You can watch four of Miller’s speeches, in the Tent in Louisville [...]

Two excellent reviews have recently been published.  Dr. H. William Batt gives the book 5 stars and states that Miller has written “an important book.  It is well written, well organized, and well documented.  It should influence a number of fields – history, economics, and law most of all.” The magazine Choice, a reviewer of books for academic [...]

The phrase Manifest Destiny was apparently first applied to American territorial expansion in 1845.  It was coined by the journalist John L. O’Sullivan.  In July 1845, he wrote an editorial entitled “Annexation” in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review and applied the term to America’s annexation of Texas.  In the editorial, O’Sullivan denounced foreign nations who [...]