{"id":43826,"date":"2016-04-26T20:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43826"},"modified":"2017-03-11T04:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T04:41:31","slug":"legal-codes-and-talking-trees-indigenous-womens-sovereignty-in-the-sonoran-and-puget-sound-borderlands-1854-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43826","title":{"rendered":"Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women\u2019s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300211689\/legal-codes-and-talking-trees\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women\u2019s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-26<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n23 b\/w illus.<br \/>\n6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780300211689<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.unl.edu\/katrina-jagodinsky\" target=\"_blank\">Katrina Jagodinsky<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Nebraska<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300211689\/legal-codes-and-talking-trees\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_jacket\/public\/imagecache\/external\/00bdc2aefd86718d00aeeba7178ad340.jpg?itok=zG8e2NKA\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Katrina Jagodinsky\u2019s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southwestern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Northwest\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Northwest<\/a> and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>atrina Jagodinsky\u2019s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,8,17,3015,20,25],"tags":[11133,1424],"class_list":["post-43826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","category-women","tag-katrina-jagodinsky","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43826\/revisions\/52331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}