American Indian History on Trial : Historical Expertise in Tribal Litigation /

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"Drawing from forty-five years of experience, E. Richard Hart elucidates the use of history as expert testimony in American Indian tribal litigation. Such lawsuits deal with aboriginal territory; hunting, fishing, and plant gathering rights; reservation boundaries; water rights; federal recogni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hart, E. Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America > Land tenure.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Forensic historians.
Federally recognized Indian tribes.
Evidence, Expert.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Indiens d'Amerique > Terres.
Expertises > États-Unis.
Indians > Land tenure.
Indian land transfers.
Forensic historians > United States.
Evidence, Expert > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coeur d'Alene : introduction
  • Ownership of Coeur d'Alene Lake : tribal sovereignty and the Equal Footing Doctrine
  • The Dawes Act and the permanency of executive-order reservations
  • Coeur d'Alene : postscript
  • Wenatchi : introduction
  • The history of the Wenatchi fishing reservation
  • Wenatchi : postscript
  • Amah Mutsun : introduction
  • Federal recognition of Native American tribes : the case of California's Amah Mutsun of Mission San Juan Bautista
  • Amah Mutsun : postscript
  • Hualapai : introduction
  • The western boundary of the Hualapai Indian Reservation
  • Hualapai : postscript
  • Water history and Native Americans
  • The adjudication of three tribes' water rights.

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