Prior to joining the faculty of Colorado Law School, Charles Wilkinson practiced law with private firms and with the Native American Rights Fund. His primary specialties are federal public land law and Indian law. In addition to his many articles in law reviews, popular journals, and newspapers, his 14 books include the standard law texts on public land law and Indian law. He has served as managing editor of Felix S. Cohen's "Handbook of Federal Indian Law," the leading treatise on Indian law. In his latest book, "The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon," Wilkinson writes about how the history of the Siletz Tribe is in many ways the history of many Indian tribes: a story of heartache, perseverance, survival, and revival.
Never before have America’s public lands faced such an uncertain future. In the years ahead, our shared inheritance will be under assault in the courts and in the Congress in ways we can scarcely imagine. Watch more interviews with legal scholars, political experts, artists, and theologians on the future of America's public lands ›