• For those who are concerned with justice, this book is absolute dynamite

                                                       --Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions

• In the Courts of the Conqueror should be required reading for all Americans who care about the inherent human rights of religious and political freedom.

                                                      --Phil Cousineau, author of The Art of Pilgrimage

• In the Courts of the Conqueror is written with such passion, wit, and candor that I literally can’t put this book down.


                                                       --Louise Erdrich, novelist and poet

• Verdict: A no-holds barred account that deserves wide circulation.


                                                        --Gilles Renaud, Library Journal

• As Walter Echo-Hawk explains in such compelling terms, American courts constructed a dark side of federal Indian law and it was no abstraction.


                              --Charles Wilkinson, Law Professor, CU College of Law,

                                 author of Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

                 

◊  Walter R. Echo-Hawk offers a compelling rationale for a broad social movement to uplift indigenous rights using atonement principles.

                                         -- The Book Depository 

* Walter Echo-Hawk's skillful analysis of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples offers a brillant and impassioned justification for a new era of federal Indian law.

                                       -- Rebecca Tsosie, Regent's Professor of Law, ASU

* In The Light of Justice is a timely and truly remarkable book . . . It is an important book, not just for indigenous peoples, but for the world.

                                       -- John Echohawk, Director, Native American Rights Fund

* All Indian Nations should read this book. . . Let us answer the call and work to uplift the laws and policies of the United States so that they comport with the human rights standards of the UNDRIP.

                                        -- Wallace Coffee, Chairman, Comanche Nation

* Walter Echo-Hawk's new book clearly demonstrates the potential of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to positively impact United States Indian law and, most importantly, sets out a strategy and a process for implementing the Declaration into American law.              

                                      -- Robert J. Miller, Law Professor, ASU, author of

                                             Native America, Discovered and Conquered

* Echo-Hawk calls for the healing of Native America, and in the process, for all of America, and has presented a blueprint for restorative justice within the context of the best of the American system, which is worthy of serious consideration by every jurist, politician, and patriotic American.

                                   --G. William Rice, Professor & Co-Director,

                                           Native American Law Center,       

                                           University of Tulsa College of Law 

* This is the book I have been waiting for: a truly probing study of justice that comes down elegantly on the side of restorative and reparative actions that heal body and soul, individual and community.

                                  --Phil Cousineau, author of Beyond Forgiveness:

                                            Reflections on Atonement