Crow Dog's Case : American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century Hardback
by Sidney L. Harring
Part of the Studies in North American Indian History series
Hardback
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Crow's Dog Case is the first social history of American Indians' role in the making of American law.
This book sheds new light on Native American struggles for sovereignty and justice in nineteenth-century America.
The 'century of dishonor', a time when American Indians' lands were lost and their tribes reduced to reservations, provoked a wide variety of tribal responses.
Some of the more succesful responses were in the area of law, forcing the newly independent American legal order to create a unique place for Indian tribes in American law.
Although the United States has a system of law structuring a unique position for American Indians, they have been left out of American legal history.
Crow Dog, Crazy Snake, Sitting Bull, Bill Whaley, Tla-coo-yeo-oe, Isparhecher, Lone Wolf, and others had their own jurisprudence, kept alive by their own legal traditions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:317 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/1994
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- ISBN:9780521415637
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:317 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/1994
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- ISBN:9780521415637
