American Indian in Western Legal Thought - The Discourses of Conquest

Zusatztext this book can be recommended as providing a good overview of the jurisprudential status of the United States Indian tribes ... The author brings together all the important sources and events which have somehow contributed to legal thought affecting the American Indian. Klappentext Tracing the evolution of legal thought on the rights and status of the American Indian and indigenous tribal peoples, Robert Williams argues for the rejection of Western legal conceptions that reduce these peoples to culturally, politically, and morally inferior beings. Zusammenfassung The author, a lawyer and member of the Lumbee tribe, traces the evolution of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of American Indians and other indigenous tribal peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Williams, Robert A. Williams, Robert A. Jr. Williams
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.1992
• EAN: 9780195080025
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508002-5
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Indigenous Peoples, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans