Linking Arms Together

American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800

Jr. Williams Robert A. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92577-8 (ISBN)

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This readable, yet sophisticated, survey of treaty-making, details how Indians tried to forge a new society with whites on the frontier. The author argues that Native Americans were active participants in shaping the US's legal culture.

This readable yet sophisticated survey of treaty-making between Native and European Americans before 1800, recovers a deeper understanding of how Indians tried to forge a new society with whites on the multicultural frontiers of North America-an understanding that may enlighten our own task of protecting Native American rights and imagining racial justice.

Robert A. Williams, Jr., is Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. A member of the Lumbee Indian tribe of North Carolina, he is author of the award-winning The American Indian in Western LegalThought (1990).

Introduction: Paradigms for Behavior1. National Mythologies and American Indians2. Treaties as Sacred Texts3. Treaties as Connections4. Treaties as Stories5. Treaties as ConstitutionsConclusion: Understanding American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and PeaceNotesIndex

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.10.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-92577-0 / 0415925770
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92577-8 / 9780415925778
Zustand	Neuware