2016/04/26 by Katrina Jagodinsky · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Computer science #Law in Society and Culture
paper · doi:10.12987/yale/9780300211689.001.0001
published in Yale University Press eBooks (Yale University Press)
openalex publication_date 2016/04/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
This book is the first to focus on Indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six Indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes, the book explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans.