“I was Indigenous and… They Made me Indigent”: Colonialism and
New Western Narrative [T]he Danns have longstanding unauthorized
use in the area…The BLM is required to enforce grazing
regulations for all public land users…The Supreme Court ruled in
1985 that any aboriginal tribal rights to the land had been
extinguished with payment of $26 million to the Western
Shoshone. —“Dann Trespass,” Bureau of Land Management News
Release (Sep 2002) Shoshone law as the Creator gave it to us is
not like the law of the United States where every year or almost
every year Congress sits in session and makes new laws and does
away with its old ones and so forth. Shoshone law once it’s in
place that’s it, unless the Creator makes the sun come up in the
west and sink in the east. Then we would change our law.