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• Title:Injustice in Indian country : jurisdiction, American law, and sexual violence against native women / Amy L. Casselman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Casselman, Amy L., 1984- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Peter Lang, [2016]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: H C37 N38 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:United States. Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
  United States. Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010.
  Indians of North America--Criminal justice system.
  Criminal jurisdiction--United States.
  Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Sex crimes--Law and legislation--United States.
  Indian women--Crimes against--Law and legislation--United States.
  
• Description:xiv, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Critical indigenous and American Indian studies ; v. 1.
  
• Summary:"Living at the intersection of multiple identities in the United States can be dangerous. This is especially true for Native women who live on the more than 56 million acres that comprise America's Indian country - the legal term for American Indian reservations and other land held in trust for Native people. Today, due to a complicated system of criminal jurisdiction, non-Native Americans can commit crimes against American Indians in much of Indian country with virtual impunity. This has created what some call a modern day 'hunting ground' in which Native women are specifically targeted by non-Native men for sexual violence. In this urgent and timely book, author Amy L. Casselman exposes the shameful truth of how the American government has systematically divested Native nations of the basic right to protect the people in their own communities. A problem over 200 years in the making, Casselman highlights race and gender in federal law to challenge the argument that violence against Native women in Indian country is simply collateral damage from a complex but necessary legal structure. Instead, she demonstrates that what's happening in Indian country is part of a violent colonial legacy - one that has always relied on legal and sexual violence to disempower Native communities as a whole. Injustice in Indian Country tells the story of American colonization through the eyes of Native women as they fight for justice. In doing so, it makes critical contributions to the fields of American law and policy, social justice and activism, women's studies, ethnic studies, American Indian studies, and sociology"--Unedited summary from book cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781433131097 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  1433131099 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  9781453916018 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Literature review and methodology
  Historicizing jurisdiction in Indian country
  Jurisdiction and sexual violence against native women
  Examining the federal response to jurisdiction in Indian country : the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010
  The ghost of Kȟan̳ǧí Šún̳ka and the enduring myth of savage justice : the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
  Differential consciousness, the third space of sovereignty, and strategies for social change
  Conclusion
  Appendix A: Glossary of terms
  Appendix B: Law and policy reference.