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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2025

Adam Crepelle
Adam Crepelle
Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
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Becoming Nations Again
The Journey Towards Tribal Self-Determination
 , pp. ix - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. Introduction

    1. 0.1Division of the Book

    2. 0.2A Note on Terminology

  3. Part IFrom Sovereigns to Wards: The History of Tribal Nations and the Law

    1. 1The Original American Governments

      1. 1.1The First Americans

      2. 1.2Early North American Civilizations

      3. 1.3Indigenous Institutions

    2. 2“Discovering” and “Founding” America

      1. 2.1Voyaging to America and the Law of Discovery

      2. 2.2Spain and Indigenous People

      3. 2.3Britain’s American Colonies

      4. 2.4The Pequot War

      5. 2.5King Philip’s War

    3. 3Commerce and Culture

      1. 3.1Indians and Guns

      2. 3.2The Birth of Indian Horse Cultures

      3. 3.3A New Way of Life

    4. 4World War and American Revolution

      1. 4.1Enter George Washington

      2. 4.2The French and Indian War

      3. 4.3The Seeds of Rebellion

      4. 4.4The Revolution Begins

    5. 5Governing the United States and Tribal Rights

      1. 5.1Tribal Resistance

      2. 5.2Indian Tribes and the United States Constitution

      3. 5.3The Creek Treaty

      4. 5.4From Treaties to Trading Posts

      5. 5.5Title to Indian Lands

    6. 6Indian Removal and the Cherokee Cases

      1. 6.1The Cherokee and Georgia

      2. 6.2Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal

      3. 6.3Removal in Motion

      4. 6.4Is the Cherokee Nation a “Nation”?

      5. 6.5The Laws of Georgia Can Have No Force

    7. 7Reservations and Federal Power

      1. 7.1Fading Treaties

      2. 7.2The Last of the Indian Wars

      3. 7.3Reservation Life

      4. 7.4Indian Blood and Tribal Citizenship

      5. 7.5Spotted Tail, Crow Dog, and Tribal Law

      6. 7.6Criminal Law, Assimilation, and Plenary Power

    8. 8Allotment and Assimilation

      1. 8.1The General Allotment Act

      2. 8.2Tribal Consent Not Needed

      3. 8.3Accelerating Allotment

      4. 8.4The Last Arrow but Still an Indian

      5. 8.5Indian Boarding Schools

    9. 9The Indian New Deal to Tribal Termination

      1. 9.1Jim Thorpe

      2. 9.2Indian Citizenship and the Great War

      3. 9.3The Indian New Deal

      4. 9.4World War II

      5. 9.5The Tribal Termination Era

      6. 9.6“Every American School Boy Knows …”

    10. 10Tribal Self-Determination

      1. 10.1Sheep and Sovereignty

      2. 10.2Buffalo Tiger and Fidel Castro

      3. 10.3Indians in the Great Society

      4. 10.4Tribal Self-Determination

  4. Part IISelf-Determination Meets Paternalism

    1. 11An Unfit Guardian: Ongoing Federal Paternalism

      1. 11.1The Federal Government and Peabody Coal v. Navajo Nation

      2. 11.2The Largest Class Action in United States’ History

      3. 11.3The Supreme Court Shields the Federal Government Again

      4. 11.4Double Standard for Tribal Governments

    2. 12Excessive Federal Bureaucracy

      1. 12.1Trust Land

      2. 12.2Land Fractionation

      3. 12.3The HEARTH Act

      4. 12.4Rights-of-Way

      5. 12.5Indian Trader Regulations

      6. 12.6Natural Resource Development

      7. 12.7Gaming

    3. 13Criminal Justice Crisis

      1. 13.1Indian Country’s Peculiar Jurisdictional Regime

      2. 13.2Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe: Facts and Consequences Don’t Matter

      3. 13.3Duro v. Reina: Stretching Oliphant Further

      4. 13.4Minor Public Safety Improvements

      5. 13.5The Jurisdictional Quagmire

    4. 14Tribal Economic Development and Uncertain Civil Jurisdiction

      1. 14.1Montana v. United States: A New Path

      2. 14.2The Path Is Not Clear: Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

      3. 14.3Taxation or Theft?

      4. 14.4What Is Legal?

      5. 14.5Tribal Sovereignty and the Digital Frontier

  5. Part IIIBecoming Nations Again

    1. 15Federal Recognition

      1. 15.1Recognized Tribes

      2. 15.2Achieving Federal Recognition

      3. 15.3Problems with the Federal Acknowledgment Process

      4. 15.4The Coushatta Journey

      5. 15.5The Houma’s Ongoing Quest

    2. 16Territorial Jurisdiction

      1. 16.1Sovereignty and Land

      2. 16.2Replacing Trust Land with Tribal Land

      3. 16.3Tribal Land and Jurisdiction

      4. 16.4Jurisdiction over Noncitizens

      5. 16.5Why Tribes Should Have Criminal Jurisdiction over Non-Indians

    3. 17Tribal Legal Institutions

      1. 17.1Tribal Law

      2. 17.2Tribal Courts

      3. 17.3Tribal Legal Bureaucracy

      4. 17.4Strengthening Tribal Law

      5. 17.5Strengthening Tribal Institutions

      6. 17.6Tribal Institutions and Economic Development

    4. 18Tribes as Nations

      1. 18.1State Opposition

      2. 18.2Tribal Self-Governance and the Federalist System

      3. 18.3Tribal Sovereignty Can Benefit States

      4. 18.4Tribes as Shields from State Protectionism

      5. 18.5Tribal Self-Governance and a Mississippi Miracle

    5. 19Education, Ethics, and the Law

      1. 19.1The Education System

      2. 19.2Recognizing a Civil Rights Trailblazer

      3. 19.3Legal Education and Tribal Sovereignty

      4. 19.4Legal Ethics

  6. Conclusion

  7. Index

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  • Book: Becoming Nations Again
  • Online publication: 17 April 2025
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