American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court : : The Masking of Justice /

American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court : : The Masking of Justice / / David E. Wilkins.

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"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith," wrote Felix S. Cohen, an early expert in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Wilkins, David E.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (421 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER I. Legal Masks, Legal Consciousness
  • CHAPTER 2. The Era of Defining Tribes, Their Lands, and Their Sovereignty
  • CHAPTER 3. The Era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903
  • CHAPTER 4. The Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism, and Moral Progress
  • CHAPTER 5. The Era of Judicial Backlash and Land Claims
  • CHAPTER 6. The Era of the Imperial Judiciary
  • CHAPTER 7. Removing the Masks
  • APPENDIX A. Cases Cited
  • APPENDIX B. Supreme Court Justices Authoring the Fifteen Opinions Analyzed
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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