A lawyer in Indian country a memoir /

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Main Author: Ziontz, Alvin J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Wilkinson, Charles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The road to Neah Bay
  • The road to Neah Bay begins in Chicago
  • The University of Chicago, the army, and Seattle
  • Becoming a lawyer
  • Seven years of lawyering in West Seattle
  • Creating a law firm
  • Indian fishing rights : joining the struggle
  • The Makahs
  • Recovering lost property : Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah
  • The Lummi Tribe
  • Indian fishing rights : eighty years of suppression, twenty years of confrontation
  • The big bang : U.S. v. Washington begins
  • U.S. v. Washington : the trial
  • U.S. v. Washington : closing arguments and Judge Boldt's decision
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has the last word : consequences of the Boldt decision
  • The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
  • The Northern Cheyennes fight strip-mining
  • The Northern Cheyennes and the Hollowbreast case
  • The Oliphant case : a setback for tribal government
  • Writing about the Indian Civil Rights Act
  • Leaving law for academia
  • A firm of tribal attorneys
  • Representing fishermen of the Alaska Peninsula
  • The Mille Lacs Band of Chippewas
  • The Wanda Boswell case
  • The Northern Arapaho Tribe
  • Photographing the Northern Cheyennes
  • The Makah whale hunt
  • A life in being.