The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition

Integrating American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, this encyclopedia includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native American Nations' legal and political systems such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, Pueblo, Mandan, Wyandot, Powhatan, Mikmaq, and Yakima. Although not an Indian law casebook, this work does contain outlines of many major Indian law cases, congressional acts, and treaties. It also contains profiles of individuals important to the evolution of Indian law. This work will be of interest to scholars in several fields, including law, Native American studies, American history, political science, anthropology, and sociology.

Author: Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02/24/1998
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.37w x 1.45d
ISBN: 9780313301674

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/1998 pg. 1542
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/1999 pg. 155
Booklist 01/01/2000 pg. 958

About the Author

BRUCE ELLIOTT JOHANSEN is Robert T. Reilly Professor of Journalism and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He is the author/editor of numerous books including Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1996).