Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- The courts of the conqueror -- A context for understanding Native American issues -- Justice, injustice, and the dark side of federal Indian law -- Johnson v. M'Intosh : how the Indians lost legal title to America -- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia : shutting the courthouse doors -- Connors v. United States & Cheyenne Indians : were the Indian wars legal? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : breaking the treaties -- United States v. Sandoval : rule by guardianship -- In re adoption of John Doe v. Heim : taking the kids -- Wana the Bear v. Community Construction : taking the dead -- Employment Division v. Smith : taking the religion -- Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Association : taking the holy places -- Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States : confiscating indigenous habitat -- Was genocide legal? -- Reforming the dark side of federal Indian law -- Afterword / by Charles Wilkinson.

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