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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Main Author: Wilkins, David E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: UR Scholarship Repository 2003
Subjects:
Native Americans
politics
criminal justice
Federal trustees
Indigenous
Indian
and Aboriginal Law
Leadership Studies
First Nations
Online Access:https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jepson-faculty-publications/314
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politics
criminal justice
Federal trustees
Indigenous
Indian
and Aboriginal Law
Leadership Studies
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politics
criminal justice
Federal trustees
Indigenous
Indian
and Aboriginal Law
Leadership Studies
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First Nations and States: Contesting Polities
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politics
criminal justice
Federal trustees
Indigenous
Indian
and Aboriginal Law
Leadership Studies
description 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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