The Erosion of Tribal Power: The Supreme Court's Silent Revolution

by Dewi I Ball

For the past 180 years, the inherent power of indigenous tribes to govern themselves has been a central tenet of federal Indian law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's repeated confirmation of Native sovereignty since the early 1830s, it has, in the past half-century, incrementally curtailed the power of tribes to govern non-Indians on Indian reservations. The result, Dewi Ioan Ball argues, has been a "silent revolution," mounted by particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806155655
• ISBN13: 9780806155654
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"