Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Krakoff Sarah
    The Last Indian Raid in Kansas: Context, Colonialism, and Philip P. Frickey‘s Contributions to American Indian Law
    in California Law Review , Vol. 98, n. 4 ,  2010 ,  1253-1286
    This Article will first describe, in Part I, the trajectory of Phil‘s Indian law scholarship, tracking in particular the development of the major themes just described—the centrality of the structural relationship between tribes and the federal government, and the importance of context. In Part II, it will delve into the story of Oberlin, Kansas, and the Northern Cheyenne Odyssey, drawing lessons for contemporary Indian law consistent with Phil‘s observations about the field. Those lessons are, first, that it is key to frame Indian law disputes as structural questions between sovereigns; and, second, that academics can provide crucial, rigorous, contextualized research about the terrain in which these disputes occur. Finally, in Part III, this Article applies lessons from the Last Indian Raid to a contemporary Indian law issue—the boundaries of tribal control over Indians who are not members of the governing tribe. Telling thicker stories, whether about the Last Indian Raid or this particular Indian law issue, allows us to peek behind the arid judicial formulations of Indian law to see the more complicated and often troubling reality about the life of Indian law. That, at least, is one of the lessons that Phil tried to teach through his scholarship, and it guides this inquiry as it has many others. Full text available at: http://www.californialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/98-4/Krakoff.FINAL.pdf
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