ABSTRACT
On 29 September 1938, Great Britain, France, Italy and the Third Reich entered into the Munich Agreement, allowing the latter to annex the 'Sudetenland', border areas of Czechoslovakia viewed by the nazis as being part of Grobdeutschland. Cesaire held that those engaged in reconstructing the West's imperial dominions were simultaneously fabricating an elaborate web of philosophical/scientific/scholarly 'interpretations' to conjure the illusion that nazism was an 'aberration', or at least 'anomalous'. Deloria's conclusion was correct with regard to the vast area to which the United States could point to no treaty or agreement as a basis for its assertion of legal title. In view of the extent to which the officially endorsed orthodoxies of denial have been eroded over the past seventy years, it is surprising that little attention has been paid to the relationship between 'Munich' and the pre-existing example set by the United States in its diplomatic relations with the Indigenous Nations of North America.
