Imagining Sovereignty, 66: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

by David J. Carlson and CARLSON

"Sovereignty" is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today--but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various--and often competing--claims to authority. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806151978
• ISBN13: 9780806151977
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"