Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Katrina Jagodinsky
Abstract
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. le ... More
Keywords: personal autonomy, Indigenous women, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, mixed-race children, tribal rights, U.S. legal system, Native Americans, Native women
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300211689 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300211689.001.0001 |
