The erosion of tribal power the Supreme Court's silent revolution /

"For the past 180 years, the inherent power of indigenous tribes to govern themselves has been a central tenet of federal Indian law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's repeated confirmation of Native sovereignty since the early 1830s, it has, in the past half-century, incrementally curtaile...

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Main Author: Ball, Dewi Ioan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
viii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
United States. -- Supreme Court.
Indian reservations -- United States.
Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Tribal government -- United States.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Federal-Indian trust relationship.
Self-determination, National -- United States.
Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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