The American Indian in western legal thought : the discourses of conquest / Robert A. Williams, Jr.

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Williams, Robert A., Jr, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York ; London : Oxford University Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 352 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1423758498
9781423758495
1280443286
9781280443282
0195050223
9780195050226
0195080025
9780195080025

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Indian in western legal thought.DDC classification:

342.7308/72 22

LOC classification:

KF8205 .W547 1992eb

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Summary: In The American Indian in Western Legal Thought Robert Williams, a legal scholar and Native American of the Lumbee tribe, traces the evolution of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of American Indians and other indiginous tribal peoples. Beginning with an analysis of the medieval Christian crusading era and its substantive contributions to the West's legal discourse of 'heathens' and 'infidels', this study explores the development of the ideas that justified the New World conquests of Spain, England and the United States. Williams shows that long-held notions of the legality of European subjugation and colonization of 'savage' and 'barbarian' societies supported the conquests in America. Today, he demonstrates, echoes of racist and Eurocentric prejudices still reverberate in the doctrines and principles of legal discourse regarding native peoples' rights in the United States and in other nations as well.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.

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In The American Indian in Western Legal Thought Robert Williams, a legal scholar and Native American of the Lumbee tribe, traces the evolution of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of American Indians and other indiginous tribal peoples. Beginning with an analysis of the medieval Christian crusading era and its substantive contributions to the West's legal discourse of 'heathens' and 'infidels', this study explores the development of the ideas that justified the New World conquests of Spain, England and the United States. Williams shows that long-held notions of the legality of European subjugation and colonization of 'savage' and 'barbarian' societies supported the conquests in America. Today, he demonstrates, echoes of racist and Eurocentric prejudices still reverberate in the doctrines and principles of legal discourse regarding native peoples' rights in the United States and in other nations as well.

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