Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock - Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S. relations with Indian tribes are "Corn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, "and" Lone Wolf. "Each exemplifies a problem or a process as the United States defined and codified its politics toward Indians. The importance of the "Lone Wolf" case of 1903 resides in its enunciation of the "plenary power" doctrine--that the United States could unilaterally act in violation of its own treaties and that Congress could dispose of land recognized by treaty as belonging to individual tribes.
In 1892 the Kiowas and related Comanche and Plains Apache groups were pressured into agreeing to divide their land into allotments under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887. Lone Wolf, a Kiowa band leader, sued to halt the land division, citing the treaties signed with the United States immediately after the Civil War. In 1902 the case reached the Supreme Court, which found that Congress could overturn the treaties through the doctrine of plenary power.

As he recounts the "Lone Wolf" case, Clark reaches beyond the legal decision to describe the Kiowa tribe itself and its struggles to cope with Euro-American pressure on its society, attitudes, culture, economic system, and land base. The story of the case therefore also becomes the history of the tribe in the late nineteenth century.

The "Lone Wolf" case also necessarily becomes a study of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 in operation; under the terms of the Dawes Act and successor legislation, almost two-thirds of Indian lands passed out of their hands within a generation. Understanding how this happened in the case of the Kiowa permits a nuanced view of the well-intentioned but ultimatelydisastrous allotment effort.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Law in the American West
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	October 1999
Authors:	Blue Clark
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6401-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8032-6401-1
Barcode:	9780803264014

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