American Indians and the Law

Summary

Professor N. Bruce Duthu, J.D., is an internationally recognized scholar on Native American issues. In American Indians and the Law, he highlights the major events, the differing principles, and the evolving perspectives that have governed relations among the Indian tribes, the federal government, and the states. "A concise history of the law and a stout defense of tribal rights, useful to the practitioner and, ever rarer, accessible to the general reader." -Kirkus Reviews