Description
Book SynopsisA meticulous and thought-provoking look at how tribes use their language to engage in "cooperation without submission."
Trade Review"Justin B. Richland’s new book,
Cooperation without Submission, provides a valuable decoder ring for non-Native government officials, scholars, and researchers who seek to consult meaningfully with Native leaders, Native nation governments, and their advocates. Rather than characterize and base recommendations on generalized Indigenous values or philosophies, the author draws conclusions from scrutinizing the details of specific Native–US engagements, and observing and analyzing the language used in meeting transcripts and legal texts. Richland does so with a thorough consideration of the current sociolegal scholarship on Indigenous law ways, settler colonialism, and US federal Indian law." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *
"The true marvel of this book is its assertion of Indigenous sovereignty in the legal landscape, which Richland suggests is a key component in taking steps toward decolonization and as a way forward in Native Nation–US engagements predicated upon amore equitable relationship of reciprocity, respect, and understanding." * Great Plains Quarterly *
Table of ContentsList of Figures A Note about Transcripts, Orthography and Terminology Part 1 Introduction 1 Cooperation without Submission 2 Beyond Dialogue: A Brief History of Native-US Engagement Part 2 Hopi Juris-diction 3 CWS: A Hopi Sociopolitical Theory of Knowing, Relating, and Norming 4 Juris-dictions of Significance: CWS in a Hopi-US Engagement Part 3 Making Indigenous Juris-diction Unrecognizable 5 Perils of Engagement and Failures of (Federal) Acknowledgment 6 Taxing Relations: Indigenous Juris-diction in the Tribal Tax Status Act Part 4 Conclusion 7 Standing with Indigenous Juris-dictions Acknowledgments References Notes Index
