Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer

Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the term practitioner-theorist to describe how the contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between their nations and academia

But Mud has no idea that she's about to embark on a vision quest that will involve deceit

and reinvigorating Indigenous cultures

and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her

even when the strangers came well armed

Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho Jeffery Clark and Elise BoxerRobert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned "like a loaded weapon" in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing