Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Discovering a Language of Racism in America
1. “Look Mom, a Baby Maid!”: The Languages of Racism
2. The Supreme Court and the Legal History of Racism in America
Part II: “Signs Taken for Wonders”: The Nineteenth Century Supreme Court and Indian Rights
3. “The Savage as the Wolf”: The Founders’ Language of Indian Savagery
4. Indian Rights and the Marshall Court
5. The Rise of the Plenary Power Doctrine
Part III: The Twentieth Century Post-Brown Supreme Court and Indian Rights
6. What “Every American Schoolboy Knows”: The Language of Indian Savagery in Tee-Hit-Ton v. United States
7. Rehnquist’s Language of Racism in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
8. The Most Indianophobic Supreme Court Justice Ever in the Legal History of Racism in America
9. The Dangers of the Twentieth Century Supreme Court’s Indian Rights Decisions
Part IV: The Rehnquist Court’s Perpetuation of Racism Against Indians
10. Expanding Oliphant’s Principle of Racial Discrimination: Nevada v. Hicks
11. The Court’s Schizophrenic Approach to Indian Rights: United States v. Lara
Conclusion: The Fifth Element
Notes
Index