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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">1530-5228</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">25.1.schwartzberg</article-id>
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      <title-group><article-title>An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”</article-title></title-group>
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          <string-name>Steven J. Schwartzberg</string-name>
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      <aff id="aff1">DePaul University</aff>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>16</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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      <volume>25</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>100</fpage>
      <lpage>136</lpage>
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      <abstract abstract-type="summary"><p>Steven J. Schwartzberg urges Americans to overturn Federal Indian Law by confronting the colonial assumptions that still shape U.S. jurisprudence now.</p></abstract>
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