Crow Dog's Case : American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; 1. A High Pretension of Savage Sovereignty; 2. Corn Tassell: State and Federal Conflict over Tribal Sovereignty; 3. American Indian Law and the Indian Nations: The Creek Nation, 1870?1900; 4. Crow Dog's Case; 5. Imposed Law and Forced Assimilation: The Legal Impact of the Major crimes Act and the Kamaga Decision; 6. Sitting Bull and Clapox: The Application of Bia Law to Indians Outside of the Major Crimes Act; 7. The Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty in Alaska, 1867?1900; 8. The Legal Structuring of Violence: American Law and the Indian Wars; 9. Conclusion.