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Broken landscape : Indians, Indian tribes, and the Constitution / Frank Pommersheim.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190260262 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History | Constitutional history -- United States
| United States. Supreme Court -- History | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Politics and government | Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- History | Tribal government -- United States | SovereigntyAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199915736DDC classification: 342.730872 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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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.
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