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The Cloaking Of Justice: The Supreme Court's Role In The Application Of Western Law To America's Indigenous Peoples, David E. Wilkins
The Cloaking Of Justice: The Supreme Court's Role In The Application Of Western Law To America's Indigenous Peoples, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
The debate over which legal Indigenous Peoples should govern Native American political power and property rights, or even whether they should be protected by law at all, caused conflicts challenging the autonomy of the legal system and led to changes of the original principles of Indian rights. The outcome of that conflict raises two questions of federal Indian law. One is where its principles contributed to the survival of Native Americans in the United States; the other is whether the same legal principles are responsible for the perpetual inferiority of Natives Americans in their own land. More starkly, the question …
Power And Presumptions; Rules And Rhetoric; Institutions And Indian Law, Deborah A. Geier
Power And Presumptions; Rules And Rhetoric; Institutions And Indian Law, Deborah A. Geier
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This 1994 article explores how unspoken, underlying presumptions shifted in Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding the analysis of tribal sovereignty.