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Injustice in Indian Country : Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women.
Title:
Injustice in Indian Country : Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women.
Author:
Casselman, Amy L.
ISBN:
9781453916018
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (172 pages)
Series:
Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies ; v.1

Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Injustice in Indian Country -- A Note on Specificity -- A Note on Terminology -- What Is Justice? -- Chapter Two: Literature Review and Methodology -- Framing Jurisdiction Under Federal Indian Policy -- Race, Gender and Colonization: Intersectionality in Sexual Violence Against Native Women -- American Jurisdiction and Federal Indian Policy: Exerting Agency and Creating Social Change -- Chapter Three: Historicizing Jurisdiction in Indian Country -- "Ex Parte Crow Dog"-1883: The Original Jurisdictional Conflict -- The Major Crimes Act-1885 -- The Dawes General Allotment Act-1887 -- Public Law 280-1953 -- "Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe"-1978 -- Conclusion -- Chpter Four: Jurisdiction and Sexual Violence Against Native Women -- Determining Jurisdiction in Indian Country -- Federal Declination and Impunity -- Predatory Violence Against Native Women in the Wake of "Oliphant" -- The Colonial Context of Sexual Violence: Constructing the Native "Other" -- The Colonial Context of Sexual Violence: Gendering the Body, Gendering the Land -- Conclusion: Jurisdiction as Sexual Violence -- Chapter Five: Examining the Federal Response to Jurisdictional Conflicts in Indian Country: The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 -- Framing the Problem, Framing Solutions -- Western Legal Hegemony -- The Homogenization of Violence: Racial Identity and Predatory Violence -- Chapter Six: The Ghost of Kȟaŋǧí Šúŋka and the Enduring Myth of Savage Justice: The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act -- Chuck Grassley and the Ghost of Kȟaŋǧí Šúŋka: Analyzing Opposition to Title IX of VAWA 2013 -- Title IX: Policy, Perception and Potential -- Whose Lives Matter? Domestic Violence and the Construction of the "Other" in VAWA 2013.

"Safety for Indian Women" as Assimilation for Tribal Governments? Reexamining the Paradigm of "Law and Order" -- Theorizing Solutions: Radicalizing VAWA 2013 -- Chapter Seven: Differential Consciousness, the Third Space of Sovereignty, and Strategies for Social Change -- What Is Justice? -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms -- Appendix B: Law and Policy Reference -- Bibliography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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