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Legal codes and talking trees : indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 /

"Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jagodinsky, Katrina (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies (sponsoring body.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Lamar series in western history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. "Returning from the Enemy" The Poetics: Politics of Indigenous Women's Legal History
  • Chapter 2. Lucía Martínez and the "Putative Father"
  • Chapter 3. Nora Jewell "In Family Way"
  • Chapter 4. Juana Walker's "Legal Right as a Half-Breed"
  • Chapter 5. Rebecca Lena Graham and "The Old Question of Common Law Marriage Raised by a Half-Breed"
  • Chapter 6. Dinah Hood, "The State Is Supreme"
  • Chapter 7. Louisa Enick, "Hemmed In on All Sides"
  • Chapter 8. "The Acts of Forgetfulness"
  • Notes
  • Index