Broken landscape [electronic resource] : Indians, Indian tribes, and the constitution / Frank Pommersheim.

By: Pommersheim, FrankContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: x, 414 pSubject(s): United States. Supreme Court -- History | 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 | SovereigntyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.7308/72 LOC classification: KF8205 | .P63 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : a new challenge to old assumptions -- Early contact : from colonial encounters to the Articles of Confederation -- Second opportunity : the structure and architecture of the constitution -- The Marshall trilogy : foundational but not fully constitutional? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : the birth of plenary power, incorporation, and an extraconstitutional regime -- Elk v. Wilkins : exclusion, inclusion, and the ambiguities of citizenship -- Indians and the First Amendment : the illusion of religious freedom? -- Indian law jurisprudence in the modern era : a common law approach without constitutional principle -- International law perspective : a new model of Indigenous nation sovereignty? -- Conclusion : imagination, translation, and constitutional convergence.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-405) and index.

Introduction : a new challenge to old assumptions -- Early contact : from colonial encounters to the Articles of Confederation -- Second opportunity : the structure and architecture of the constitution -- The Marshall trilogy : foundational but not fully constitutional? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : the birth of plenary power, incorporation, and an extraconstitutional regime -- Elk v. Wilkins : exclusion, inclusion, and the ambiguities of citizenship -- Indians and the First Amendment : the illusion of religious freedom? -- Indian law jurisprudence in the modern era : a common law approach without constitutional principle -- International law perspective : a new model of Indigenous nation sovereignty? -- Conclusion : imagination, translation, and constitutional convergence.

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