Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho "Nora Murphy defines her work

"Nora Murphy defines her work as cultural outsider: she listens

and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her

The book places Hopi long-distance runners within the larger context of American sport and identity from the early 1880s to the 1930s

and rarely seen in contemporary poetics

Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po

Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho "Nora Murphy defines her workRobert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned "like a loaded weapon" in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing