American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880

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327 Acoma Pueblo, 195, 196 adultery, 47, 64 Africans, African Americans, 83, 107, 109, 151; and citizenship, 160, 266n33, 266n35, 279n9; civil rights and, 168–69, 213; discriminatory laws toward, 118–19; identification as, 92, 93–94; in Mashpee society, 174, 175–76, 284n58; school segregation , 123, 124, 268–69n52; slavery, 84–85, 211 Alabama, 69, 97, 108, 117, 157; authority and jurisdiction of, 56, 66, 77; on citizenship, 115–16; contract law, 63, 221; criminal jurisdiction in, 46–47, 63–64 Alabama Indians, 122 Alaska, 71 Algonquian tribes, 9, 128–29 Allen, John, 98, 99 Americanism, 156 Ames, Michael E., 141–42 Amos, Joseph, 173 Amos, Matthias, 172, 175 Angélie, 85, 86 annuities: and assimilation, 138–39; and land rights, 34, 145 anti-trespass legislation, 55, 223–24, 241–42n33, 249n16 Antonio, Juan, 71–72 Apaches, 4, 187, 207, 210 Apess, William, 162, 168, 280n17 Appleton, John, 160 Arkansas, 71, 117, 268n45; authority and jurisdiction of, 56, 63, 64, 70, 252n36; contract law in, 63, 64, 69, 72; inheritance in, 99–100 Arny, F. M., 192 Ashurst, Merrill, 197, 198 assimilation, 1, 84, 106, 206, 209, 212–13; federal efforts at, 215–17; land privatization, 198–99; Mashpee, 174–75; Sioux, 138–39; Spanish views on, 3, 5, 8, 20; in U.S. practice, 14, 38, 202–4 Attaquin, Solomon, 172, 175 Atwater, Moses, 25 autonomy, 1–2, 3, 11, 15; Cherokee Nation, 39–40; in New York state, 33–38. See also sovereignty Bagg, Joseph H., 135 Baird, Spruce, 195 Balcombe, S. A. D., 138 Becker, George L., 140, 142 Benedict, Kirby, 197, 198 Bigbag, Joseph, 26–27 Bills, Perley, 146 Bird, Francis W., 169, 283n41 Birney, James, 147 Blue-Jacket, Charles, 47, 48, 70 Blue-Jacket v. Commissioners of Johnson County, 47–48, 70, 251–52n34 Bonavia, Bernardo, 5 Boudinot, Elias, 106, 107, 244n49, 262n9 Bourgeois, Olivier, 90 Bourgeois, Pierre, 90 Boyer and Charley v. Dively, Donnelly, and Black, 98 Bozeman, William G., 220 Index  Index 328 Breeden, William, 197 Bristol, Warren, 190, 191, 198 Brotherton Indians, 36, 37, 68, 221, 239n24, 241–42n33 Brown, John B., 173 Brown, John W., 61 Brown, Joseph R., 137, 139, 140 Bryan v. Walton, 94 Buffalo Creek Reservation, 37 Caittet, Joseph, 90 Calhoun, James S.: on Pueblo Indians, 182–83, 184–85, 187, 200 Calhoun, John C., 42 California, 56, 62, 86, 95, 102, 123, 210, 221, 222, 267n44, 270n3; criminal jurisdiction in, 53–54, 238–39n20; jurisdiction over individuals in, 71–72; suffrage, 116, 125–26; testimony laws, 114, 120–21, 259n27, 265n27, 267n44 California v. Brady, 120–21 Caldwell, James, 63 Caldwell v. Alabama, 46–47, 63–64, 65, 66, 70, 72–73 Canjuebes, 5 Cantrelle, Jacques, 90 Carondelet, Baron de, 89 Carson, Kit, 111 Casimir, 89, 90, 91 Catawba Indians, 222 Catron, John, 63, 64, 66 Cayuga, 34, 35, 37 Chappaquiddick Indians, 9, 163, 164, 176; contract law, 221–22; land ownership, 170, 171; political rights, 166, 168 Charlotte v. Chouteau, 86 Chaughquawtaugh: murder of, 19, 25, 26, 29, 206 Cherokee National Council, 41 Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, 45, 55, 100 Cherokees, Cherokee Nation, 64, 65, 243n38, 250n27, 253n40, 278n5; contract law and, 63, 221; identification as, 96, 262n9, 276–77n56; land issues of, 38–46; marriage customs in, 97, 259n34, 262n9; removal of, 40–41, 77, 103–8, 156, 165, 243n40, 244n49, 277n2; sovereignty issues of, 19, 20, 47, 76, 99, 209, 243n38, 260n40; testimony laws and, 113–14, 265n30 Cherokee Tobacco case, 216 Chickasaws, 77, 89, 98–99, 157 Child, David L., 41 Chippewa (Ojibwes), 128, 129, 133, 145, 146, 269n1, 275n49 Choctaws, 77, 97, 116, 157 Choptank Indians, 219, 220 Chouteau, Pierre, 87 Chrétien, Gérard, 85–86 Chrétien, Joseph, 85 Christian Indians, 10, 109, 212 Christianity, 3, 14; conversion to, 4–5, 7, 8, 10, 212 Christiantown Indians, 9, 163, 166 citizenship, 5, 124, 201, 203–4, 207, 213, 274n43, 277–78n3, 278n5, 283n49, 296n22; constitutional rights, 119–20; Dred Scott decision and, 158–60; equal rights and, 167–70; federalism, 155–61; as federal issue , 133–34, 147–48, 158, 215–17, 269n53; gender issues on, 174–77; of Indians, 30–33, 115–17, 150, 160; and land ownership, 69, 157, 170–73, 284–85n64; in Massachusetts, 167, 169–70, 177–79, 209; Mexican, 6, 62; and militia service, 134–35; in Minnesota , 273–74n40, 274n43; in New Mexico, 180–82, 266n34; in New York, 30–33, 36, 280n13; of Pueblo Indians, 187–89, 196...