Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution

by Frank Pommersheim

Book Overview

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. Frank Pommersheim, one of America's leading scholars in Indian tribal law, offers a novel and deeply researched synthesis of this legal history from colonial times to the present, confronting the failures of constitutional analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199915733
• ISBN13: 9780199915736
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"