Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
(Part of the The Lamar Series in Western History Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300211686
ISBN13:9780300211689
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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