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Pommersheim, Frank,

Broken landscape : Indians, Indian tribes, and the Constitution / Frank Pommersheim. - 1 online resource

Originally published in print: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. The author offers a novel and deeply researched synthesis of this legal history from colonial times to the present, confronting the failures of constitutional analysis in contemporary Indian law jurisprudence.

ISBN: 9780190260262 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Supreme Court --History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

LC Class. No.: PS3566.O57 / .P63 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 342.730872