American Indians Time And The Law
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Author | : Charles F. Wilkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780300041361 |
Looks at how Supreme Court decisions have defined the role of Indian tribes as permanent governments within the federal constitutional system
Author | : Charles F. Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300153347 |
In 1959, the Supreme Court ushered in a new era of Indian law, which recognizes Indian tribes as permanent governments within the federal constitutional system and, on the whole, honors old promises to the Indians. Drawing together historical sources such as the records of treaty negotiations with the Indians, classic political theory on the nature of sovereignty, and anthropological studies of societal change, Wilkinson evaluates the Court's work in Indian law over the past twenty five years and considers the effects of time on law.
Author | : N. Bruce Duthu |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101157917 |
A perfect introduction to a vital subject very few Americans understand-the constitutional status of American Indians Few American s know that Indian tribes have a legal status unique among America's distinct racial and ethnic groups: they are sovereign governments who engage in relations with Congress. This peculiar arrangement has led to frequent legal and political disputes-indeed, the history of American Indians and American law has been one of clashing values and sometimes uneasy compromise. In this clear-sighted account, American Indian scholar N. Bruce Duthu explains the landmark cases in Indian law of the past two centuries. Exploring subjects as diverse as jurisdictional authority, control of environmental resources, and the regulations that allow the operation of gambling casinos, American Indians and the Law gives us an accessible entry point into a vital facet of Indian history.
Author | : Sidney L. Harring |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1994-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521467155 |
The first social history of American Indians' role in the making of American law sheds new light on Native American struggles for sovereignty and justice during the "century of dishonor," a time when their lands were lost and their tribes reduced to reservations.
Author | : Theodore Catton |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0816531994 |
American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians and U.S. foresters came together over a shared conservation ethic on many cooperative endeavors; yet, they often clashed over how the nation’s forests ought to be valued and cared for on matters ranging from huckleberry picking and vision quests to road building and recreation development. Marginalized in American society and long denied a seat at the table of public land stewardship, American Indian tribes have at last taken their rightful place and are making themselves heard. Weighing indigenous perspectives on the environment is an emerging trend in public land management in the United States and around the world. The Forest Service has been a strong partner in that movement over the past quarter century.
Author | : Robert A. Williams Jr. |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 1992-11-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198021739 |
Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World.
Author | : Monroe E. Price |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stuart BANNER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674020537 |
Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.
Author | : Laughlin McDonald |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806186003 |
The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens. Laughlin McDonald has participated in numerous lawsuits brought on behalf of Native Americans in Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. This litigation challenged discriminatory election practices such as at-large elections, redistricting plans crafted to dilute voting strength, unfounded allegations of election fraud on reservations, burdensome identification and registration requirements, lack of language assistance, and noncompliance with the Voting Rights Act. McDonald devotes special attention to the VRA and its amendments, whose protections are central to realizing the goal of equal political participation. McDonald describes past and present-day discrimination against Indians, including land seizures, destruction of bison herds, attempts to eradicate Native language and culture, and efforts to remove and in some cases even exterminate tribes. Because of such treatment, he argues, Indians suffer a severely depressed socioeconomic status, voting is sharply polarized along racial lines, and tribes are isolated and lack meaningful interaction with non-Indians in communities bordering reservations. Far more than a record of litigation, American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights paints a broad picture of Indian political participation by incorporating expert reports, legislative histories, newspaper accounts, government archives, and hundreds of interviews with tribal members. This in-depth study of Indian voting rights recounts the extraordinary progress American Indians have made and looks toward a more just future.
Author | : Robert A. Williams, Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135282927 |
This readable yet sophisticated survey of treaty-making between Native and European Americans before 1800, recovers a deeper understanding of how Indians tried to forge a new society with whites on the multicultural frontiers of North America-an understanding that may enlighten our own task of protecting Native American rights and imagining racial justice.