{"product_id":"lone-wolf-v-hitchcock-blue-clark-9780803264014","title":"Lone Wolf V. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century","description":"Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S. relations with Indian tribes are \u003ci\u003eCorn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Lone Wolf. \u003c\/i\u003eEach exemplifies a problem or a process as the United States defined and codified its politics toward Indians. The importance of the \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e case of 1903 resides in its enunciation of the \"plenary power\" doctrine--that the United States could unilaterally act in violation of its own treaties and that Congress could dispose of land recognized by treaty as belonging to individual tribes. \u003cp\u003eIn 1892 the Kiowas and related Comanche and Plains Apache groups were pressured into agreeing to divide their land into allotments under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887. Lone Wolf, a Kiowa band leader, sued to halt the land division, citing the treaties signed with the United States immediately after the Civil War. In 1902 the case reached the Supreme Court, which found that Congress could overturn the treaties through the doctrine of plenary power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he recounts the \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e case, Clark reaches beyond the legal decision to describe the Kiowa tribe itself and its struggles to cope with Euro-American pressure on its society, attitudes, culture, economic system, and land base. The story of the case therefore also becomes the history of the tribe in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e case also necessarily becomes a study of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 in operation; under the terms of the Dawes Act and successor legislation, almost two-thirds of Indian lands passed out of their hands within a generation. Understanding how this happened in the case of the Kiowa permits a nuanced view of the well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous allotment effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blue Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803264011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803264014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.53d","brand":"Blue Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059751579903,"sku":"9780803264014","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6b63b25-b452-4a99-a7b0-2c9da0acab42.jpg?v=1685060117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lone-wolf-v-hitchcock-blue-clark-9780803264014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}