Readings in American Indian law : recalling the rhythm of survival

CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1 IDENTITY Identity in Mashpee James Clifford Mashpee: The Story of Cape Cod's Indian Town Francis G. Hutchins The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial Jack Campisi Identity as Idiom: Mashpee Reconsidered Jo Carrillo 2 LAND CLAIMS Fort Sill Apache Tribe of State of Oklahoma v. United States Original Indian Title Felix S. Cohen Original Indian Title (Revisited) Wilcomb E. Washburn Indian Claims in the Courts of the Conqueror Nell Jessup Newton Epilogue Nancy Oestreich Lurie The Creation of a "Court of Indian Affairs" Vine Deloria, Jr. Imagining the Reservation Sherman Alexie 3 CONSTITUTIVE INCOMMENSURABLES: LAND, CULTURE, HISTORY A Song from Sacred Mountain: Lakota-Dakota and Cheyenne Interviews Arvol Looking Horse A Song from Sacred Mountain: Lakota-Dakota and Cheyenne Interviews Charlotte Black Elk Who Owns the West? William Kittredge Legally Mediated Identity: The National Environmental Policy Act and the Bureaucratic Construction of Interests Wendy Espeland Large Binocular Telescopes, Red Squirrel Pinatas, and Apache Sacred Mountains: Decolonizing Environmental Law in a Multicultural World Robert A. Williams, Jr. Revision and Reversion Vine Deloria, Jr. 4 THE REPATRIATION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY A Brief Historical Survey of the Expropriation of American Indian Remains Robert E. Bieder Give Me My Father's Body Kenn Harper The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echohawk Congressional Hearings Implementing the National Policy of Understanding, Preserving, and Safeguarding the Heritage of Indian Peoples and Native Hawaiians: Human Rights, Sacred Objects, and Cultural Patrimony Rennard Strickland 5 TRIBAL GOVERNANCE / GENDER Native American Women Rayna Green Native American Women: An Update Jo Ann Woodsum Gender or Ethnicity: What Makes a Difference? A Study of Women Tribal Leaders Melanie McCoy Mankiller: A Chief and her People Wilma Mankiller The Legal Rights of American Indian Women Genevieve Chato and Christine Conte Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni 6 RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION The Peyote Religion: A Narrative Account Silvester J. Brito Appendix A to a Brief Submitted by the Native American Rights Funding the Case of Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of the State of Oregon v. Smith Omer C. Stewart Other Studies [of Sacred Places]: What They Did and How They Did It Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis Appendix K to Defendant's Exhibit G Dorothea Theodoratus, "Cultural Resources of the Chimney Rock Section, Gasquet-Orleans" in Lying v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association United States on Behalf of the Zuni Tribe of New Mexico v. Earl Platt The Sacred Trail to Zuni Heaven: A Study in the Law of Prescriptive Easements Hank Meshorer Achieving True Interpretation Edmund J. Ladd Books Cited About the Contributors Index