Ownership, Authority, and Self-Determination: Moral Principles and Indigenous Rights Claims

by Burke A. Hendrix

Book Overview

Much controversy has existed over the claims of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples that they have a right--based on original occupancy of land, historical transfers of sovereignty, and principles of self-determination--to a political status separate from the states in which they now find themselves embedded. How valid are these claims on moral grounds?

Burke Hendrix tackles these thorny questions in this book. Rather than focusing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033991
• ISBN13: 9780271033990
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"