Broken landscape : Indians, Indian tribes, and the constitution / Frank Pommersheim.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pommersheim, Frank
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Constitutional history > United States.
United States. > Supreme Court > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Civil rights > History.
Tribal government > United States.
Sovereignty.
Physical Description:x, 414 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.