LEADER 03366nam 2200481 a 450 001 9910811892903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79996-9 024 7 $a10.7560/791084 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000538 035 $a(OCoLC)44959653 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442954 035 $a(DE-B1597)586897 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292799967 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000538 100 $a19970107d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Indian sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court $ethe masking of justice /$fDavid E. Wilkins 205 $a1st University of Texas Press ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (421 p.) 311 $a0-292-79108-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-389) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER I. Legal Masks, Legal Consciousness -- $tCHAPTER 2. The Era of Defining Tribes, Their Lands, and Their Sovereignty -- $tCHAPTER 3. The Era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903 -- $tCHAPTER 4. The Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism, and Moral Progress -- $tCHAPTER 5. The Era of Judicial Backlash and Land Claims -- $tCHAPTER 6. The Era of the Imperial Judiciary -- $tCHAPTER 7. Removing the Masks -- $tAPPENDIX A. Cases Cited -- $tAPPENDIX B. Supreme Court Justices Authoring the Fifteen Opinions Analyzed -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $a"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith," wrote Felix S. Cohen, an early expert in Indian legal affairs. In this book, David Wilkins charts the "fall in our democratic faith" through fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly curtailed Indian rights. He offers compelling evidence that Supreme Court justices selectively used precedents and facts, both historical and contemporary, to arrive at decisions that have undermined tribal sovereignty, legitimated massive tribal land losses, sanctioned the diminishment of Indian religious rights, and curtailed other rights as well. These case studies?and their implications for all minority groups?make important and troubling reading at a time when the Supreme Court is at the vortex of political and moral developments that are redefining the nature of American government, transforming the relationship between the legal and political branches, and altering the very meaning of federalism. 606 $aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zUnited States 615 0$aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 676 $a342.73/0872 700 $aWilkins$b David E$g(David Eugene),$f1954-$0254806 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811892903321 996 $aAmerican Indian sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court$9897925 997 $aUNINA