Tanner Allread
@tannerallread.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, and the release of From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short Fiction.
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An essay by me and Jane Calvert on the John Dickinson documents discovery that reveal his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution. It previews the scholarly forum on the documents that will be published soon. lawliberty.org/the-secret-e...
The Secret Effort to Prevent the Revolution – Jane E. Calvert & Jonathan Gienapp
Newly discovered letters by John Dickinson shed light on his opposition to American independence.
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Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
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Wohoo! And it’s about time… The Oneida Nation endowed a chair for an Indian Law scholar at HLS and they’ve been trying to fill it for DECADES. It took the incredible badass that is Tanner to break down that door finally. So proud and excited. This is a win for Indian Country and for the field!
Tanner Allread@tannerallread.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
Today the Court denied transgender women and girls constitutional equality. I predicted that the athlete cases could take this turn after last year's decision in Skrmetti: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
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One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
A Founder’s Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary War
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🧵 HAPPY JUNETEENTH!! Today we celebrate the freedom from enslavement for many Black people in the so called united states. Many, but not all. As Mvskoke and Semvnole it's important to remember that my Native Nations enslaved people far after this date and
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
I have just posted the newest quarterly bibliography of new and forthcoming material in Native American and Indigenous studies. I hope you find it of some value, and if there is something you think I should add to the list, please let me now. Happy Reading! michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...
What You Need to Read, June 2026
School’s out, and it is time to try to catch up with all the work that has come out over the course of the past few months. This quarterly bibliography includes recent and forthcoming work th…
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I understand the efficiency reasons for having librarians or RAs pull books, but browsing in the library stacks (or in a bookstore) is just one of my favorite all-time activities 📚
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2mo agoI pulled a physical book, myself, from the library today. I haven’t done that in a bit because I tend to buy the books I read. Sometimes RAs will pull them for me or they’re online. But there’s an art in finding the book you were after and browsing the nearby titles—spending time lost in the stacks.
It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Wow! The @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social, continuous since 2006, has its 15,000th post! I wrote post #1 from the kitchen table of my then boyfriend's (now husband's) home in Sharon, MA. The blog is now beautifully curated by @kmtani.bsky.social & @dbqur.bsky.social. Thank you readers! ⚖️ 🗃
Karen Tani@kmtani.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory
You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory
LHB 15,000
This is the 15,000th post on Legal History Blog. No less than at its founding by Mary Dudziak almost twenty years ago, it remains committe...
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@jamellebouie.net sums up the perils of a “colorblind constitution” so perfectly: “Liberty for those who profit from the cruel legacies of our past, endless struggle for those crushed under their weight.”
Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 3mo ago“It may be that the first step in truly reining in the court is to remember that the republic — and the Constitution that brought it to life — is meant for us. It is ours to interpret and ours to transform.”
This is one of those articles that makes me feel like my scholarship is really "seen" and doing an important thing. 🥹🩷 The University of Chicago Law Review | The Return to Autochthonous Law lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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It isn’t an election law piece, but I’ve written about the work of Native women in the legal academy and the relationship between American law, gender, and settler colonialism. irlaw.umkc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Indian Country has secured victory after victory using the Voting Rights Act's essential protections. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Callais undermines the protections enshrined in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
@tannerallread.bsky.social's extraordinarily impressive article, "Indigenous Constitutionalism," has arrived! "Indigenous constitutionalism as a distinct constitutional practice through which Native nations claim and exercise self-governance" harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Indigenous Constitutionalism - Harvard Law Review
By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that c...
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Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The correct answer is clearly Brachiosaurus 🦕 Will stand proudly with the 3% of people who love dinosaurs and know what they’re talking about
David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com · 4mo agoA shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
So excited to see this article in print!! 🎉 Tanner's work is always terrific, but this piece is especially good in challenging us to understand tribal constitutions on their own terms while also pressing on what Indigenous constitutionalism can tell us about American constitutionalism more broadly.
Tanner Allread@tannerallread.bsky.social · 4mo agoHonestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵 harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Honestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵 harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Indigenous Constitutionalism - Harvard Law Review
By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that currently govern peoples and territories within the United States. These constitutions not only flow from a sovereignty that existed prior to the United States but also came out of a legal movement that asserted its independence from both the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. This Article tells the story of these constitutions — the constitutions of Native nations.
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What Sotomayor should have been in a position to do is respond, “Rogers?! The Dred Scott of federal Indian law?! You’re citing *that* at me?!” This is a problem! No one appears to have noticed this.
