In the courts of the conqueror : the 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided / Walter R. Echo-Hawk.
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TextPublication details: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Publishing, c2010.Description: xiv, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1936218011
- 9781936218011
- Ten worst Indian law cases ever decided
- 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided
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The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights as indigenous peoples by American courts. Most people think that the goal of the judiciary, and especially the US Supreme Court, is to achieve universal notions of truth and justice. In this in-depth examination, however, Walter Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture.
Echo-Hawk analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines. He delves into the dark side of the courts, calling for a paradigm shift in American legal thinking. Each case study includes historical, contemporary, and political context from a Native American perspective, and the case's legacy on Native America. In the Courts of the Conqueror is a comprehensive history of Indian Country from a new and unique viewpoint. It is a vital contribution to American history.
Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is of counsel to the Crowe & Dunlevy law firm of Oklahoma. As a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund for thirty-five years, he represented tribes and Native Americans on significant legal issues during the modern era of federal Indian law. In addition to litigation, he worked on major legislation, such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), and federal religious freedom legislation. He is a prolific writer whose books include the award-winning Battlefields and Burial Grounds .
Includes bibliographic references (p.[471]-548) and index.
Foreword / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- At the courthouse steps. The courts of the conqueror ; A context for understanding Native American issues ; Justice, injustice, and the dark side of federal Indian law -- Affairs of the living. Johnson v. M'Intosh: how the Indians lost legal title to America ; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia: shutting the courthouse doors ; Connors v. United States & Cheyenne Indians: were the Indian Wars legal? ; Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: breaking the treaties ; United States v. Sandoval: rule by guardianship ; In re Adoption of John Doe v. Heim: taking the kids -- The spirit world. Wana the Bear v. Community Construction: taking the dead ; Employment Division v. Smith: taking the religion ; Lyng v. Northwest Indiana Cemetery Association: taking the holy places ; Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States: confiscating indigenous habitat -- From the valley of darkness to the mountain crest. Was genocide legal? ; Reforming the dark side of federal Indian law -- Afterword / by Charles Wilkinson.
Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture. He analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines.