In the courts of the conqueror : the 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided / / Walter R. Echo-Hawk.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 560 p. :; ill. |
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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.