
- 280 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Preface: Seeing between Worlds
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Plan of the Book
- Chapter 1. Learning in Navajoland
- Chapter 2. “Indians”
- Chapter 3. Federal Anti-Indian Law
- Chapter 4. The Domination Matrix
- Chapter 5. Revoking Christian Discovery Doctrine
- Chapter 6. Federal Anti-Indian Law in the Classroom
- Chapter 7. Call to Consciousness
- Notes
- Index