Format:
Book
Title:
Making Indian law : the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory / Christian W. McMillen.
Author:
McMillen, Christian W., 1969-
Call Number:
C970.3 H877mcmi 2007
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Description:
xx, 284 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
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 Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Contents:
The Hualapais -- The conflict -- The Hualapai awakening -- The government versus the Hualapais -- Taking Hualapai land -- Writing Indians out of their land -- The Hualapais and history -- Land and law -- Saving Hualapai land -- Building a case -- The case in court -- The Supreme Court and the power of history -- In the wake of Hualpai.
ISBN:
0300114605 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300114607 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300114607