Defying the odds
Subtitle: one California tribe's struggle for sovereignty in three centuries
By: Gelya Frank, Carole Goldberg.
Contributors: Goldberg, Carole E.
Series: The Lamar series in western history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300120165
Subjects: Yokuts Indians -- California -- Tule River Region -- Government relations; Yokuts Indians -- California -- Tule River Region -- History; Self-determination, National; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Sovereignty and the Yokuts tribes; title: Introduction; title: Early Yokuts strategies to protect land and sovereignty in central California; title: Part two. United States v. Whaley (1888): tribal sovereignty compromised; title: United States v. Whaley: criminalizing tribal authority at Tule River; title: Local chiefs, out-of-control shamans, and do-nothing agents: the cultural logic of United States v. Whaley; title: The presidential pardon: an Indian rights association ploy; title: Part three. Reconstructing sovereignty after Whaley; title: Cultural sovereignty after Whaley: asserting tribal authority in a new political economy; title: The Indian reorganization act: matching constitutional democracy with indigenous cultural style; title: Land and sovereignty: victories on the northeast corner and in tribal gaming; title: The legacy of United States v. Whaley: tribal sovereignty, social control, and dispute; title: Resolution at Tule River.