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Colonial Legal History

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Books:

Calloway, Colin. New Directions in American Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; New Ed edition,1992.

Hall, G. Emlen. Four Leagues of Pecos: A legal history of the Pecos grant, 1800-1933.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Hart, E. Richard. Zuni and the Courts: a struggle for sovereign land rights. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995.

Kawashima, Yasuhide, Puritan Justice and the Indian: White Man's Law in Massachusetts, 1630-1763. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1986.

Kessell, John L. Kiva, Cross, and Crown: the Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840. Washington: National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Print Office, 1979.

Mandell, Daniel R. Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Plane, Anne. Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. Subjects Unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Reid, John Philip. A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation.  New York: New York University Press, 1970.
 
Vaughan, Alden T. Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789 (20 volumes). Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 -1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Williams, Robert. Jr. Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600- 1800.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Wunder, John R. Native American Law and Colonialism, Before 1776 to 1903.  New York: Garland Press, 1996.

 

Articles:

Brooks, James F., "'Lest We Go in Search of Relief to Our Lands and Our Nation': Customary Justice and Colonial Law in the New Mexico Borderlands, 1680-1821," in The Many Legalities of Early America, edited by Christopher Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann, p. 150-180. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Conroy, David W., "The Defense of Indian Land Rights: William Bollan and the Mohegan Case in 1743," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 103:2 (1993), 395-424.

Crone-Morange, Paulette, and Lucianne Lavin, "The Schaghticoke Tribe and English Law: A Study of Community Survival," Connecticut History, 43(Fall 2004), 132-162.

Ghere, David L. and Alvin H. Morrison, "Searching for Justice on the Maine Frontier: Legal Concepts, Treaties, and the 1749 Wiscasset Incident," American Indian Quarterly, 25:3 (2001), 378-99.

Hermes, Katherine, "'Justice Will Be Done Us': Algonquian Demands for Reciprocity in the Courts of European Settlers," in The Many Legalities of Early America, edited by Bruce Mann, Christopher Tomlins and Fredrika Teute, p. 123-149. Chapel Hill: for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2001.

Kawashima, Yasuhide, "Uncas's Struggle for Survival: The Mohegans and Connecticut Law in the Seventeenth Century," Connecticut History, 43 (Fall 2004), 119-131.

LeMaster, Michelle, "In the 'Scolding Houses': Indians and the Law in North Carolina, 1684-1760," North Carolina Historical Review, 83:2 (April 2006), 193-232.

Plane, Anne. “Customary Laws of Marriage: Legal Pluralism, Colonialism, and Narragansett Indian Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island" in The Many Legalities of Early America, edited by Bruce Mann, Christopher Tomlins and Fredrika Teute, p. 181-213. Chapel Hill: for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2001.

Plane, Anne. “The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women's Voices in an Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case" in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology. Ed. Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, in press.

Plane, Anne. "'The Examination of Sarah Ahhaton': The Politics of 'Adultery' in an Indian Town of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts." in Algonkians of New England, Past and Present: Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, edited by Peter C. Benes, p. 14-25. Boston: Boston University Press, 1993.

Plane, Anne. “Legitimacies, Indian Identities, and the Law: The Politics of Sex and the Creation of History in Colonial New England" Law and Social Inquiry, 23:1 (1998): 55-77; reprinted in Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850, edited by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. The Neale Colloquium in British History. London: University College London Press, 1999

Plane, Anne. "Liberator or Oppressor? Law, Colonialism, and New England's Indigenous Peoples.”
Connecticut History 43:2 (2004): 163-170.

Plane, Anne and Gregory Button. "The Massachusetts Indian Enfranchisement Act: Ethnic Contest in Historical Context, 1849-1869,” Ethnohistory, 40:4 (1993): 587-618; reprinted in After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England, edited by Colin G. Calloway.  Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

 

Dissertations:

Matthews, Sandra K. "The ‘Nineteenth-century’ Cruzate Grants: Pueblos, Peddlers, and the Great Confidence Scam?" Ph.D. diss., University of New Mexico, 1998.

 

 

 

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