Review of \u3ci\u3e Crow Dog\u27s Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century\u3c/i\u3e by Sidney L. Harring

In Crow Dog\u27s Case, Sidney L. Harring\u27s objective was to correct the omission of tribal legal traditions from United States Indian law. The reason for this exclusion, according to Harring, is that federal Indian law historically focused on policy questions outside of tribal cultural and historical contexts while at the same time, the tribes\u27 cultural-based legal traditions remained rooted in tribal culture and history. Confined to this policy-based judicial vision, nineteenth century courts made ahistorical decisions which distorted or ignored tribal jurisprudence and created a legacy of ongoing misconceptions of tribal legal traditions and customs