The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty

The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty offers a rigorous constitutional and methodological rethinking of the United States’ relationship to Indigenous polities. Russell Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson set aside individual-rights framings to interrogate the collective political status of tribes as sovereigns, arguing that contemporary American jurisprudence traps them in a subordinate constitutional space—distinct from states and even from U.S. territories—through a doct...