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Author
Publisher
Rosen YA
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes and explains the legal rights of LGBTQ+ young people in the United States, including information on free speech and expression, identity, protection from abuse and discrimination, and privacy.
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
viii, 348 pages ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to American Indian treaties, the American polity too often forgets the realities of history. Prevailing perceptions are often not only inaccurate but also premised on outright falsehoods. Treaty-making was profoundly influenced by tribal conceptions of diplomacy. Colonial and early U.S. treaties especially were clothed in ritual, metaphor, and covenants that emphasized the sacred nature and purpose of diplomacy and represented a time...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity-from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever-that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
�2004
Physical Desc
1 ressource en ligne (viii, 355 pages) : carte.
Language
English
Description
The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Natives today. A complicated system of criteria and procedures, the FAP is utilized by federal officials to determine whether a Native community qualifies for federal recognition by the United States government. In Forgotten Tribes, Mark Edwin Miller offers a balanced and detailed look at the origins, procedures, and assumptions governing the FAP. His...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each with its own distinct culture, religion, language, and history. Yet these Indians, and federal Indian law, rarely factor into the decisions of the country{u2019}s governing class - as recent battles over national monuments on tribal sites have made painfully clear. A much-needed intervention, 'Many Nations...
30) Sexual justice: supporting victims, ensuring due process, and resisting the conservative backlash
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A pathbreaking work for the #MeToo era, laying out a better response to sexual harms that includes due process for the accused"--
32) The divorce colony: how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
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