North America: Domestic Trials: Indian Rights And National Belonging In Works By E. ...

North America: Domestic Trials: Indian Rights And National Belonging In Works By E. Pauline Johnson And John M. Oskison Beth H. Piatote, 2011   This interdisciplinary literature and law essay considers the legal mechanism of marriage as a site that joins notions of love and consent with the apparatus of state regulation, and how this affected indigenous communities in the United States and Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Foregrounding the legal context, this...

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