| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Prologue: White Man's Law -- Captain Jack's "Vendetta" -- Gonshayee: The "Last Raid" -- Betwixt and Between: The "Carlisle Kid" -- Batdish: Red Man, White Justice -- Epilogue: The Unbalanced Scales of Justice |
| Summary |
Though trials in open court suggest impartiality, White Justice in Arizona reveals how, time and again, the judicial system of nineteenth-century Arizona denied Apaches justice. The Captain Jack, Gonshayee, Apache Kid, "Carlisle Kid," and Batdish murder cases offer a sad, compelling commentary on injustice for Native Americans. That these trials all ended in Apache convictions, Clare V. McKanna Jr. argues, proves the unfairness of applying the American legal tradition to a culture that lived by very different social and legal codes. Conquered and forced from their lands by white outsiders, Apaches found their customs and methods of maintaining social control dramatically at odds with a new and completely alien legal system, a system that would not bend to integrate Apache or any other Native American culture. Through case studies of these very different murder trials, White Justice in Arizona probes the federal and state governments' treatment of America's indigenous populations and the cultural clashes that left justice the greatest casualty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Apache Indians -- Arizona
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Apache Indians -- Arizona -- Government relations
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Trials (Murder) -- Arizona
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Apache Indians
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Apache Indians -- Government relations
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Trials (Murder)
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Arizona
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
142376272X |
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9781423762720 |
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1281093432 |
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9781281093431 |
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9786611093433 |
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6611093435 |
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