Decolonizing the Foundations in American Indian Law: Revisiting the Foundation Trilogy

Federal American Indian Law introduces the reader to the cases that form the foundation of Federal American Indian law as it is practiced in the United States, beginning with the John Marshall trilogy through some later landmark cases. Decolonizing the text of the cases here means unraveling the coded language of the colonizers and exposing the methods of the judiciary, and even going behind the scenes to examine the lives of the jurist who led the way.