Reclaiming the reservation : histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed

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Reclaiming the reservation : histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed

Title remainder

histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed

Statement of responsibility

Alexandra Harmon

Creator

• Harmon, Alexandra, 1945-

Contributor

• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

Author

• Harmon, Alexandra, 1945-

Issuing body

• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

Subject

• Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State)
• Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191 (1978)
• Sovereignty
• Sovereignty
• Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Washington
• Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Washington -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Suquamish Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Trials
• Washington (State)
• Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"In the landmark 1978 case Oliphant v. Suquamish, the Supreme Court ruled that no Indian tribe can lawfully prosecute non-Indians. This decision had far-reaching effects in subsequent disputes about the jurisdiction of American Indian tribes, the terms of their relationship to the United States, their powers as political entities, and the significance of Indian reservations. Yet, even though few developments have highlighted the tensions, hopes, and fears associated with American Indians' unique political-legal status as clearly as contemporary tribal governments' assertion of jurisdiction over non-Indians, that subject hasn't received the attention it deserves from historians. The Non-Indian Problem recounts the history of tribes' desire for inclusive jurisdiction and the circumstances that encouraged them finally to act on that desire in the twentieth century. The manuscript focuses on the legal battles of the Quinault and Suquamish tribes beginning in the 1960s and culminating in the 1978 decision, with an epilogue addressing the consequences of that ruling"--

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• Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

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Provided by publisher

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AzTeS/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography