First Nations and States: Contesting Polities
The U.S. Supreme Court in an historic case in 1886, U.S. v. Kagama, which devastated tribal sovereignty by affirming the legality of the 1885 Major Crimes Act that problematically extended federal criminal jurisdiction over "all" Indians for seven major crimes—murder, manslaughter, rape, e...
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UR Scholarship Repository
2003
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Online Access: | https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jepson-faculty-publications/314 https://scholarship.richmond.edu/context/jepson-faculty-publications/article/1321/viewcontent/First_Nations_and_States_to_Upload.pdf |
Summary: | The U.S. Supreme Court in an historic case in 1886, U.S. v. Kagama, which devastated tribal sovereignty by affirming the legality of the 1885 Major Crimes Act that problematically extended federal criminal jurisdiction over "all" Indians for seven major crimes—murder, manslaughter, rape, etc., (today that number has increased to 14 crimes)—more accurately declared in that same case that state governments could be characterized as the "deadliest enemies" of indigenous nations. |
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