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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455402603321

Autore

Pommersheim Frank

Titolo

Broken landscape [[electronic resource] ] : Indians, Indian tribes, and the constitution / / Frank Pommersheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-026026-2

1-282-32836-0

9786612328367

0-19-970659-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

342.7308/72

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc - History

Constitutional history - United States

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indians of North America - Politics and government

Indians of North America - Civil rights - History

Tribal government - United States

Sovereignty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-405) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a new challenge to old assumptions -- Early contact : from colonial encounters to the Articles of Confederation -- Second opportunity : the structure and architecture of the constitution -- The Marshall trilogy : foundational but not fully constitutional? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : the birth of plenary power, incorporation, and an extraconstitutional regime -- Elk v. Wilkins : exclusion, inclusion, and the ambiguities of citizenship -- Indians and the First Amendment : the illusion of religious freedom? -- Indian law jurisprudence in the modern era : a common law approach without constitutional principle -- International law perspective : a new model of Indigenous nation sovereignty? -- Conclusion : imagination, translation, and constitutional convergence.



Sommario/riassunto

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of the ways that Indian tribal sovereignty is recognized within the Constitution and as it has been interpreted and misinterpreted through legal analysis and practice over the intervening decades. Built on a history of war and usurpation of land, the relationship between Indian tribes and the United States government was formally inscribed within federal structure--a structure not mirrored in the traditions of tribal governance. Although the Constitution recognized the sovereignty of Indian nations, it did not safeguard tribes against the tides of natio