Legal Codes and Talking Trees - Indigenous Womens Sovereignty in Sonoran Puget Sound Borderlands,

Zusammenfassung "Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states! it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property! raise mixed-race children! or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes! Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans"--Book jacket.

Product details

• Authors: Katrina Jagodinsky, Jagodinsky Katrina
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9780300211689
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21168-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: The Lamar Series in Western History; Lamar Series in Western Histor; The Lamar Series in Western History; Lamar Series in Western History (YALE)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Indigenous Peoples, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Native American people, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General