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Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law

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This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. Historically, Native American autobiographers have written in the shadow of Indian law, a nuanced form of natural law discourse with its own set of related institutions and f ...more
Paperback , 232 pages
Published November 22nd 2005 by University of Illinois Press
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