The story of Pocahontas, simultaneously celebrated and contained, presents the favored path for Native American women in the newer legal culture: absorption into the Euro-American race and ultimate disappearance of the non-European element. The alternative path was reserved for women whose assimilation did not reach this level of absorption and disappearance but retained their allegiance to both the Indian and white society. Federal and state legislatures and courts marginalized such women, denied them the treaty rights accorded their male companions, and denied them stable marriages, rights of descent, and the power within the family that they had had within Indian culture. As white people and white values encroached ever further into form...
One of the great myths of the white invention of the Indian was that there was no law among Native A...
The debate over which legal Indigenous Peoples should govern Native American political power and pro...
In this contribution to the symposium on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez held by the Tribal Law Cente...
The story of Pocahontas, simultaneously celebrated and contained, presents the favored path for Nati...
The Pocahontas Exception confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous ...
This project explores the intersecting discourses of the "Woman Question" and the "Indian Problem" f...
In 1846, the Supreme Court held in United States v. Rogers that a white man who had become a citizen...
Most scholarship on Loving v. Virginia (1967) briefly mentions the “Pocahontas Exception,” a subsect...
This Article will demonstrate that virtually all elements of Indian affairs can be traced to the dec...
Historical and contemporary stereotypes of Native American Indian women have resulted in inaccurate ...
Standing Bear v. George Crook, an 1879 case brought in the Federal District Court in Omaha, is today...
This article describes the profound changes to American Indian kinship and social structures caused ...
This research analyzes the triple layer of state systems (namely, tribal, state, and federal governm...
A rich historiography has accumulated regarding American Indian boarding schools and the experience ...
The purpose of this article is to discuss openly the issue of the physical abuse of American Indian ...
One of the great myths of the white invention of the Indian was that there was no law among Native A...
The debate over which legal Indigenous Peoples should govern Native American political power and pro...
In this contribution to the symposium on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez held by the Tribal Law Cente...
The story of Pocahontas, simultaneously celebrated and contained, presents the favored path for Nati...
The Pocahontas Exception confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous ...
This project explores the intersecting discourses of the "Woman Question" and the "Indian Problem" f...
In 1846, the Supreme Court held in United States v. Rogers that a white man who had become a citizen...
Most scholarship on Loving v. Virginia (1967) briefly mentions the “Pocahontas Exception,” a subsect...
This Article will demonstrate that virtually all elements of Indian affairs can be traced to the dec...
Historical and contemporary stereotypes of Native American Indian women have resulted in inaccurate ...
Standing Bear v. George Crook, an 1879 case brought in the Federal District Court in Omaha, is today...
This article describes the profound changes to American Indian kinship and social structures caused ...
This research analyzes the triple layer of state systems (namely, tribal, state, and federal governm...
A rich historiography has accumulated regarding American Indian boarding schools and the experience ...
The purpose of this article is to discuss openly the issue of the physical abuse of American Indian ...
One of the great myths of the white invention of the Indian was that there was no law among Native A...
The debate over which legal Indigenous Peoples should govern Native American political power and pro...
In this contribution to the symposium on Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez held by the Tribal Law Cente...