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

Published New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Lamar series in western history Lamar series in western history. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Returning from the Enemy" The Poetics: Politics of Indigenous Women's Legal History -- Chapter 2. Lucía Martínez and the "Putative Father" -- Chapter 3. Nora Jewell "In Family Way" -- Chapter 4. Juana Walker's "Legal Right as a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 5. Rebecca Lena Graham and "The Old Question of Common Law Marriage Raised by a Half-Breed" -- Chapter 6. Dinah Hood, "The State Is Supreme" -- Chapter 7. Louisa Enick, "Hemmed In on All Sides" -- Chapter 8. "The Acts of Forgetfulness" -- Notes -- Index 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"--Provided by publisher Notes "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"--Page ii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-323) and index Notes Print version record Subject Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- History -- 19th century Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- History -- 20th century Indian women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century Indian women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century Indian women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- History -- 19th century Indian women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- History -- 20th century LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. Indian women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Pacific Ocean -- Puget Sound North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, sponsoring body. ISBN 0300220812 9780300220810

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