In the courts of the conqueror the 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Echo-Hawk, Walter R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.