Making Indian law
Subtitle: the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory
By: Christian W. McMillen.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780300114607
Subjects: Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Indian title -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Hualapai Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The Hualapais; value: The conflict; value: The Hualapai awakening; value: The government versus the Hualapais; value: Taking Hualapai land; value: Writing Indians out of their land; value: The Hualapais and history; value: Land and law; value: Saving Hualapai land; value: Building a case; value: The case in court; value: The Supreme Court and the power of history; value: In the wake of Hualpai.