A lawyer in Indian country
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Alvin J. Ziontz ; foreword by Charles Wilkinson.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780295989358
Subjects: Ziontz, Alvin J; Lawyers -- United States -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Civil rights; Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The road to Neah Bay; title: The road to Neah Bay begins in Chicago; title: The University of Chicago, the army, and Seattle; title: Becoming a lawyer; title: Seven years of lawyering in West Seattle; title: Creating a law firm; title: Indian fishing rights : joining the struggle; title: The Makahs; title: Recovering lost property : Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah; title: The Lummi Tribe; title: Indian fishing rights : eighty years of suppression, twenty years of confrontation; title: The big bang : U.S. v. Washington begins; title: U.S. v. Washington : the trial; title: U.S. v. Washington : closing arguments and judge Boldt's decision; title: The U.S. Supreme Court has the last word : consequences of the Boldt decision; title: The Confederate Tribes of the Colville Reservation; title: The Northern Cheyennes fight strip-mining; title: The Northern Cheyennes and the Hollowbreast case; title: The Oliphant case : a setback for tribal government; title: Writing about the Indian Civil Rights Act; title: Leaving law for academia; title: A firm of tribal attorneys; title: Representing fishermen of the Alaska Peninsula; title: The Mille Lacs Band of Chippewas; title: The Wanda Boswell case; title: The Northern Arapaho Tribe; title: Photographing the Northern Cheyennes; title: The Makah whale hunt; title: A life in being.