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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 “This high pretension of savage sovereignty”
- 2 Corn Tassel: state and federal conflict over tribal sovereignty
- 3 U.S. Indian law and the Indian nations: the Creek Nation, 1870–1900
- 4 Crow Dog's case
- 5 Imposed law and forced assimilation: the legal impact of the Major Crimes Act and the Kagama decision
- 6 Sitting Bull and Clapox: the application of BIA law to Indians outside of the Major Crimes Act
- 7 The struggle for tribal sovereignty in Alaska, 1867–1900
- 8 The legal structuring of violence: U.S. law and the Indian wars
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 “This high pretension of savage sovereignty”
- 2 Corn Tassel: state and federal conflict over tribal sovereignty
- 3 U.S. Indian law and the Indian nations: the Creek Nation, 1870–1900
- 4 Crow Dog's case
- 5 Imposed law and forced assimilation: the legal impact of the Major Crimes Act and the Kagama decision
- 6 Sitting Bull and Clapox: the application of BIA law to Indians outside of the Major Crimes Act
- 7 The struggle for tribal sovereignty in Alaska, 1867–1900
- 8 The legal structuring of violence: U.S. law and the Indian wars
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
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- Crow Dog's CaseAmerican Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 293 - 301Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994