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American Indians and the Law: The Penguin Library of American Indian History
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by N. Bruce Duthu and Colin Calloway
Sales Rank: 276782
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List Price: $21.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
Published by: Viking Adult January 31, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0670018570
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0670018574
Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Hundreds of Native American tribes are classified as sovereign governments, a murky legal status that this study (part of the Penguin Library of American Indian History) struggles to clarify. Duthu, a law professor and member of the Houma tribe, reviews statute and case law on tribal sovereignty, especially recent Supreme Court decisions that are at odds with Congress's modern friendliness toward tribal self-determination. His dense, dry survey explores such topics as tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians living on reservations, tribal natural resources and environmental policy, adoption law for Indian children and the perennial wrangling between tribal and state governments over taxes, regulation and gambling. Roiling these issues are two conflicts: the clash between tribal sovereignty and congressional power to legislate on Indian affairs, and the tension between tribal group rights and individual rights. Duthu's sympathies are clear: he dismisses critics of special tribal rights as ignorant and castigates infringements of tribal sovereignty as motivated by neocolonialist views of Indians as a dying race; but his focus on legal precedent and convention regarding tribal sovereignty rather than its concrete benefits fails to make a compelling case for the necessity of such sovereignty.
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“A concise history of the law and a stout defense of tribal rights, useful to the practitioner and, ever rarer, accessible to the general reader.”
--Kirkus Revies
“Using numerous legal cases, Duthu, a lawyer and Houma Indian Nation tribal member, demonstrates how Indian sovereignty has affected the way in which the rights of native peoples have been addressed by the legal systems in the United States…This outstanding overview of the morass that is the legal relationship between Indian nations and the United States is highly recommended for public and academic libraries.”
--Library Journal
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