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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778594103321
• Autore: Pommersheim Frank
• 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
• 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