Peter P. D'Errico

Federal Anti-Indian Law (eBook, PDF)

The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Telling the crucial and under-studied story of the U.S. legal doctrines that underpin the dispossession and domination of Indigenous peoples, this book enhances global Indigenous movements for self-determination.

In this wide-ranging historical study of federal Indian law-the field of U.S. law related to Native peoples-attorney and educator Peter P. d'Errico argues that the U.S. government's assertion of absolute prerogative and unlimited authority over Native peoples and their lands is actually a suspension of law.

Combining a deep theoretical analysis of the law with a historical examination of its roots in Christian civilization, d'Errico presents a close reading of foundational legal cases and raises the possibility of revoking the doctrine of domination. The book's larger context is the increasing frequency of Indigenous conflicts with nation-states around the world as ecological crises caused by industrial extraction impinge drastically on Indigenous peoples' existences. D'Errico rethinks the role of law in the global order-imagining an Indigenous nomos of the earth, an order arising from peoples and places rather than the existing hegemony of states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440879227
• Artikelnr.: 68205842

Autorenporträt

Peter P. d'Errico, JD (LLB), is professor emeritus of legal studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Seeing between Worlds Acknowledgments Introduction: The Plan of
the Book Chapter 1Learning in Navajoland Chapter 2"Indians" Chapter 3
Federal Anti-Indian Law Chapter 4The Domination Matrix Chapter 5Revoking
Christian Discovery Doctrine Chapter 6Federal Anti-Indian Law in the
Classroom Chapter 7Call to Consciousness Notes Index