Defying the Odds

by Carole Goldberg and Gelya Frank

An anthropologist and a legal scholar deploy the dramatic history of one California tribe in a definitive study of tribal sovereignty in the United States up through the current Indian gaming era. "Defying the Odds will fascinate any reader who wishes better to understand the tortured relationship between culture and law in the history of Indian sovereignty."-James F. Brooks, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe "The book is magnificent in its subjects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300178891
• ISBN13: 9780300178890
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"