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Hollow justice : a history of indigenous claims in the United States / David E. Wilkins.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernityPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300186000
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 346.730432 23
LOC classification:
  • KF8205 .W528 2014
Online resources: This text, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programmes were instituted, native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. Wilkins addresses the important question of what one nation owes another when the balance of rights, resources, and responsibilities have been negotiated through treaties.
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This text, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programmes were instituted, native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. Wilkins addresses the important question of what one nation owes another when the balance of rights, resources, and responsibilities have been negotiated through treaties.

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