The Indigenous Paradox: Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas

by Jonas Bens

An investigation into how indigenous rights are conceived in legal language and doctrine

In the twenty-first century, it is politically and legally commonplace that indigenous communities go to court to assert their rights against the postcolonial nation-state in which they reside. But upon closer examination, this constellation is far from straightforward. Indigenous communities make their claims as independent entities, governed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252306
• ISBN13: 9780812252309
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"