Part historical, part autobiographical, this solo performance focuses on key landmark cases of Federal Indian Law as well as the artist's own experiences of being raised in an Ecuadorian immigrant household that held cultural biases and prejudice towards indigenous people. The performance revolves around the 200 year-old history of US Supreme Court rulings that have diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations in Indian Country.

In the Court of the Conqueror is the second installment of sanchez's performance series, Performing the Constitution. One of the inspirations for embarking on this series is to create narratives that point to, and highlight, the importance and relevance of how the creation of law and its ramifications have a direct link to how communities of color live and exist in this country. sanchez has created an artistic avenue by which to reflect and analyze the breadth and scope of how institutional racism and cultural tenets of racial and gender superiority are embedded in the nation's foundational document.

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