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• Introduction: Arguing with tradition in Native America
• Making a Hopi Nation : "Anglo" law comes to Hopi country
• "What are you going to do with the village's knowledge?" : language ideologies and legal power in Hopi tribal court
• "He could not speak Hopi. ... that puzzle puzzled me" : the pragmatic paradoxes of Hopi tradition in court
• Suffering into truth : Hopi law as narrative interaction
• Conclusion: Arguments with tradition

"Arguing with Tradition" is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin B. Richland's extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona - on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore - this innovative work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence.Like many indigenous legal institutions across North America, the Hopi Tribal Court was created in the image of Anglo-American law. But Richland shows that in recent years, Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflects Hopi culture and traditions. Providing unprecedented insights into the Hopi and English courtroom interactions through which this conflict plays out, Richland argues that tensions between the language of Anglo-style law and Hopi tradition both drive Hopi jurisprudence and make it unique. Ultimately, Richland's analyses of the language of Hopi law offer a fresh approach to the cultural politics that influence indigenous legal and governmental practices worldwide.
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• Preface: 1. Introduction
• 2. The Navajo nation
• 3. A new and old deal for Navajos: Oil and sheep
• 4. War production and growing pains: uranium and coal
• 5. Alternative environmental paths
• 6. Golf balls and discretionary funds
• 7. Improving tribal governance
• 8. Locally grounded development
• 9. Reclaiming the land
• 10. Creating space for experimentation
• 11. Sovereign assertions
• 12. Conclusion
• Acknowledgments.
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In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and over-grazing, oil and gas, uranium, and coal; yet Navajos continue to suffer from high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rosser shows the connection between the exploitation of these resources and the growth of the tribal government before turning to contemporary land use and development challenges. He argues that, in addition to the political challenges associated with any significant change, external pressures and internal corruption have made it difficult for the tribe to implement land reforms that could help provide space for economic development that would benefit the Navajo Nation and Navajo tribal members.
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• Preface: 1. Introduction
• 2. The Navajo nation
• 3. A new and old deal for Navajos: Oil and sheep
• 4. War production and growing pains: uranium and coal
• 5. Alternative environmental paths
• 6. Golf balls and discretionary funds
• 7. Improving tribal governance
• 8. Locally grounded development
• 9. Reclaiming the land
• 10. Creating space for experimentation
• 11. Sovereign assertions
• 12. Conclusion
• Acknowledgments.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and over-grazing, oil and gas, uranium, and coal; yet Navajos continue to suffer from high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rosser shows the connection between the exploitation of these resources and the growth of the tribal government before turning to contemporary land use and development challenges. He argues that, in addition to the political challenges associated with any significant change, external pressures and internal corruption have made it difficult for the tribe to implement land reforms that could help provide space for economic development that would benefit the Navajo Nation and Navajo tribal members.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Tribal Justice is a feature documentary about a little known, but effective, criminal justice reform movement in American today: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative justice systems based on their traditions. In California, two formidable Native American women are among those leading the way. Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe on the northeast coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan Tribe in the southeastern desert, are creating innovative systems that focus on restoring rather than punishing offenders in order to keep tribal members out of prison, prevent children from being taken from their communities, and stop the school-to-prison pipeline that plagues their young people.