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Legal codes and talking trees : indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 / Katrina Jagodinsky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lamar series in western historyPublisher: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0300220812
  • 9780300220810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Legal codes and talking trees.DDC classification:
  • 342.0878 23
LOC classification:
  • E98.W8 J34 2016eb
  • K644
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Returning from the Enemy" The Poetics: Politics of Indigenous Women's Legal History -- Chapter 2. Lucía Martínez and the "Putative Father" -- Chapter 3. Nora Jewell "In Family Way" -- Chapter 4. Juana Walker's "Legal Right as a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 5. Rebecca Lena Graham and "The Old Question of Common Law Marriage Raised by a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 6. Dinah Hood, "The State Is Supreme" -- Chapter 7. Louisa Enick, "Hemmed In on All Sides" -- Chapter 8. "The Acts of Forgetfulness" -- Notes -- Index
Summary: "Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history 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, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"--Page ii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-323) and index.

"Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history 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, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans"--Provided by publisher.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Returning from the Enemy" The Poetics: Politics of Indigenous Women's Legal History -- Chapter 2. Lucía Martínez and the "Putative Father" -- Chapter 3. Nora Jewell "In Family Way" -- Chapter 4. Juana Walker's "Legal Right as a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 5. Rebecca Lena Graham and "The Old Question of Common Law Marriage Raised by a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 6. Dinah Hood, "The State Is Supreme" -- Chapter 7. Louisa Enick, "Hemmed In on All Sides" -- Chapter 8. "The Acts of Forgetfulness" -- Notes -- Index

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