Making Indian law : the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory / Christian W. McMillen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillen, Christian W., 1969-

Series:

The Lamar Series in Western History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company--Trials, litigation, etc.

Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company.

Indian title--United States--History--20th century.

Indian title.

Hualapai Indians--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--20th century.

Hualapai Indians.

Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona--Trials, litigation, etc.

Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona.

Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--Trials, litigation, etc.

Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1941, after decades of struggling to hold on to the remainder of their aboriginal home, the Hualapai Indians finally took their case to the Supreme Court-and won. The Hualapai case was the culminating event in a legal and intellectual revolution that transformed Indian law and ushered in a new way of writing Indian history that provided legal grounds for native land claims. But Making Indian Law is about more than a legal decision. It's the story of Hualapai activists, and eventually sympathetic lawyers, who challenged both the Santa Fe Railroad and the U.S. government to a courtroom showdown over the meaning of Indian property rights-and the Indian past.At the heart of the Hualapai campaign to save the reservation was documenting the history of Hualapai land use. Making Indian Law showcases the central role that the Hualapai and their lawyers played in formulating new understandings of native people, their property, and their past. To this day, the impact of the Hualapai decision is felt wherever and whenever indigenous land claims are litigated throughout the world.

Contents:

The Hualapais

The conflict

The Hualapai awakening

The government versus the Hualapais

Taking Hualapai land

Writing Indians out of their land

The Hualapais and history

Land and law

Saving Hualapai land

Building a case

The case in court

The Supreme Court and the power of history

In the wake of Hualpai.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611735005

9781281735003

1281735000

9780300135237

0300135238

OCLC:

1024014264