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In the Courts of the Conqueror : the 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided.
The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights as Indigenous peoples by American courts. Most people think that the goal of the judiciary, and especially the US Supreme Court, is to achieve u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Speaker''s Corner,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Patricia Nelson Limerick
- The courts of the conqueror
- A context for understanding Native American issues
- Justice, injustice, and the dark side of federal Indian law
- Johnson v. M'Intosh : how the Indians lost legal title to America
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia : shutting the courthouse doors
- Connors v. United States & Cheyenne Indians : were the Indian wars legal?
- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : breaking the treaties
- United States v. Sandoval : rule by guardianship
- In re adoption of John Doe v. Heim : taking the kids
- Wana the Bear v. Community Construction : taking the dead
- Employment Division v. Smith : taking the religion
- Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Association : taking the holy places
- Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States : confiscating Indigenous habitat
- Was genocide legal?
- Reforming the dark side of federal Indian law
- Afterword / by Charles Wilkinson.