Red Man's Land/White Man's Law is a history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans down to the present day. It begins with the efforts of colonial authorities-Spanish, British, and French-to deal with tribal sovereignty and carries the discussion of U. S. -Indian legal relations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tribal sovereignty was eroded from the very beginning, but more recently it has emerged as a powerful force in American and Canadian law and touches upon many current legal issues, such as land allotment and land claims; definitions of Indian status; hunting, fishing, and water rights; and tribal relations with Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Canadian government. First published in 1971, this second edition contains a new preface and an extensive afterword discussing important legal events and issues in the last twenty-five years, making this a complete, up-to-date survey of legal relations between the United States and the American Indian.
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Wilcomb E. Washburn is Director of the American Studies Program at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of The Indian and the White Man, The Indian in America, and The Assault on Indian Tribalism as well as volume editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4, History of Indian-White Relations.
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The American Indian was vanquished but is still with us. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
termination legislation, tribal courts, termination act, slip opinion, fee patents, termination policy, aboriginal title, tribal governments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Court of Claims, Secretary of the Interior, Supreme Court, American Indian, Indian Claims Commission, New Mexico, New York, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Five Civilized Tribes, New World, Public Law, Fort Belknap, House of Representatives, Navajo Tribal Council, New England, North America, World War, Fifth Amendment, Dawes Act, Indian Act, President Nixon, Secretary Udall, House Concurrent Resolution New!
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United States, Court of Claims, Secretary of the Interior, Supreme Court, American Indian, Indian Claims Commission, New Mexico, New York, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Five Civilized Tribes, New World, Public Law, Fort Belknap, House of Representatives, Navajo Tribal Council, New England, North America, World War, Fifth Amendment, Dawes Act, Indian Act, President Nixon, Secretary Udall, House Concurrent Resolution New!
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- Federal Indian Law by U S Solicitor for the Department of the Interior on 6 pages
- Handbook of Federal Indian Law by Felis S. Cohen on 4 pages
- The United States (First Reports: Countries) by Robin Santos Doak on page 62, and page 63
- Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Jr. Vine Deloria on page 228
- Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt (Classics in Legal History Reprint Series) by John P. Kennedy in Back Matter
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