Legal codes and talking trees : indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound borderlands, 1854-1946

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Legal codes and talking trees : indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound borderlands, 1854-1946 / Katrina Jagodinsky.

Summary:

"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. legal system by female Native Americans"--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300211689
ISBN: 0300211686
Physical Description: xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-323) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Acknowledgments. -- Chapter 1. "Returning from the enemy" : the poetics and politics of indigenous women's legal history -- Chapter 2. Lucaía Martaínez and the "putative father" : Arizona, 1854-1900 -- Chapter 3. Nora Jewell "in family way" : Washington, 1854-1910 -- Chapter 4. Juana Walker's "legal right as a half-breed" : Arizona, 1864-1916 -- Chapter 5. Rebecca Lena Graham and "the old question of common law marriage raised by a half-breed" : Washington, 1859-1946 -- Chapter 6. Dinah Hood, "the state is supreme" : Arizona, 1863-1935 -- Chapter 7. Louisa Enick, "hemmed in on all sides" : Washington, 1855-1935 -- Chapter 8. "The acts of forgetfulness" : indigenous women's legal history in archives and tribal offices throughout the North American West. -- Notes -- Index.