Legal Codes and Talking Trees

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  • ISBN 9780300211689
  • Weight: 658g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Apr 2016
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.

Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Katrina Jagodinsky is assistant professor of history at the University of Nebraska and a former fellow of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU. She lives in Lincoln, NE.

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