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Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women´s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Katrina Jagodinsky
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Description for Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women´s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Hardback. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Lamar Series in Western History
Condition
New
Weight
684g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300211689
SKU
V9780300211689
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About Katrina Jagodinsky
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.
Reviews for Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women´s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Winner of the 2017 Armitage-Jameson Book Prize given by the Coalition for Western Women's History.
Armitage-Jameson Book Prize
Coalition for Western Women's History
Winner of the 2017 Armitage-Jameson Book Prize given by the Coalition for Western Women's History. Legal Codes and Talking Trees is original and without comparison. I have yet to see a similar ... Read more
Armitage-Jameson Book Prize
Coalition for Western Women's History
Winner of the 2017 Armitage-Jameson Book Prize given by the Coalition for Western Women's History. Legal Codes and Talking Trees is original and without comparison. I have yet to see a similar ... Read more