Land divided by law
Subtitle: the Yakama Indian Nation as environmental history, 1840-1933
By: by Barbara Leibhardt Wester
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781610271400; 9781610271417
Subjects: History; Natural resources; Law and legislation; Land use; Human ecology; Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
Description: Wester's environmental history of Yakama and Euro-American cultural interactions during the 19th and early 20th century explores the role of law in both curtailing and promoting rights to subsistence resources within a market economy. Her study, using original source files, case histories, and contemporary writings, particularly describes how the struggle to assert treaty rights both sprang from and impacted the daily lives of the Yakama people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274).