Making Indian Law - The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory

In 1941, a groundbreaking US Supreme Court decision changed the field of Indian law, setting off an intellectual and legal revolution that continues to reverberate around the world. This book tells the story of that case, United States, as Guardian of the Hualapai Indians of Arizona, v Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christian Mcmillen, Christian W. Mcmillen, McMillen Christian W.
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.03.2009
• EAN: 9780300143294
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14329-4
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Lamar Series in Western Histor; The Lamar Series in Western History
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Allgemeines, Lexika; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Legal History, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Land Rights, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Human rights, civil rights, Relating to Native American people, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems