i think we can look at the vikings or the babylonians, the romance, see this as a set of questions that confront us all and our american experience has i think yet to be written. we can look to the courts, you know, and see what the courts have said about it which is the approach i took, but the final chapter i don't think has been written because i think we want to, we are a fair and a just people and i think that we can look at and see in the law, our law, affecting american indians and i identify those vestiges of injustice that are still embedded in that law and tried to root them out of the law. and so. my book is not nearly about injustice but it also points a pathway towards a more just culture as we want to stride toward a more just culture and in a post colonial world and root out these nefarious doctrines, you know, that affect our tribal people here in the u.s. and so that that our basic notions of liberty and, quality, fair treatment, you know, can be achieved for all segments of the society including our native peoples. and so that is ultimately i think the end product of m