Broken landscape
Subtitle: Indians, Indian tribes, and the constitution
By: Frank Pommersheim.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780195373066
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History; Constitutional history -- United States; Indians of North America -- Government relations; Indians of North America -- Politics and government; Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- History; Tribal government -- United States; Sovereignty
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a new challenge to old assumptions; title: Early contact: from colonial encounters to the Articles of Confederation; title: Second opportunity: the structure and architecture of the constitution; title: The Marshall trilogy: foundational but not fully constitutional?; title: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: the birth of plenary power, incorporation, and an extra constitutional regime; title: Elk v. Wilkins: exclusion, inclusion, and the ambiguities of citizenship; title: Indian citizens and the First Amendment: the illusion of religious freedom?; title: Indian law jurisprudence in the modern era: a common law approach without constitutional principle; title: International law perspective: a new model of Indigenous nation sovereignty?; title: Conclusion: imagination, translation, and constitutional convergence.