Legal codes and talking trees :

"Katrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans." -- Provided by publisher

Call Number: 
E98 .W8 J34 2016
Title Responsibility: 
Katrina Jagodinsky.
Author Information: 
Katrina Jagodinsky is assistant professor of history at the University of Nebraska and a former fellow of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU. She lives in Lincoln, NE.
Production Place: 
New Haven :
Producer: 
Yale University Press
Production Date: 
2016
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Multiple Nations
Reviews: 

Murdoch, Chandra. "Katrina Jagodinsky, Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854–1946." Law and History Review, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 435-437, 2018. https://www-cambridge-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/core/services/aop....

Sackman, Douglas C. "Review: Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854–1946 by Katrina Jagodinsky." Pacific Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 2, 2018, pp. 367-368. https://phr-ucpress-edu.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/content/ucpphr/87/2....

Wenger, Tisa. "Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sounds Borderlands, 1854–1946." Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 33, no. 1, 2018, pp. 125 - 127. https://www-cambridge-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/core/services/aop....

O'Neill, Colleen. "Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854–1946." The Journal of American History, vol. 104, no. 1, 2017, p. 200. https://journals-scholarsportal-info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/00....

Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
10384477
Law Subject(s): 
Women and the Law
Discrimination and Equality Law
Table of Contents: 
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