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Author McMillen, Christian W., 1969-

Title Making Indian law : the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory / Christian W. McMillen.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Hualapais -- The conflict -- The Hualapai awakening -- The government versus the Hualapais -- Taking Hualapai land -- Writing Indians out of their land -- The Hualapais and history -- Land and law -- Saving Hualapai land -- Building a case -- The case in court -- The Supreme Court and the power of history -- In the wake of Hualpai.
Summary In 1941, a groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decision changed the field of Indian law, setting off an intellectual and legal revolution that continues to reverberate around the world. This book tells for the first time the story of that case, United States, as Guardian of the Hualapai Indians of Arizona, v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co., which ushered in a new way of writing Indian history to serve the law of land claims. Since 1941, the Hualapai case has travelled the globe. Wherever and whenever indigenous land claims are litigated, the shadow of the Hualapai case falls over the proceedings. Threatened by railroad claims and by an unsympathetic government in the post - World War I years, Hualapai activists launched a campaign to save their reservation, a campaign which had at its centre documenting the history of Hualapai land use. The book recounts how key individuals brought the case to the Supreme Court against great odds and highlights the central role of the Indians in formulating new understandings of native people, their property, and their past.
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Subject Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company.
Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company.
Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona.
Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Indian title -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Indian title.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Hualapai Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Hualapai Indians.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McMillen, Christian W., 1969- Making Indian law. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007 0300114605 9780300114607 (DLC) 2006029347 (OCoLC)71286667
ISBN 9780300135237 (electronic book)
0300135238 (electronic book)
9781441645630 (electronic book)
1441645632 (electronic book)
1282089315
9781282089310
0300114605 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300114607 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300143294 (paperback)
030014329X (paperback)
1281735000
9781281735003