In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes.
As the senior attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to the historic 1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific Northwest tribes’ treaty fishing rights, with ramifications for tribal rights nationwide. His work took him to reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as well as Washington and Alaska, and he describes not only the work of a tribal attorney but also his personal entry into the life of Indian country.
Ziontz continued to fight for tribal rights into the late 1990s, as the Makah tribe of Washington sought to resume its traditional whale hunts. Throughout his book, Ziontz traces his own path through this public history – one man’s pursuit of a life built around the principles of integrity and justice.
Table des matières
Foreword by Charles Wilkinson
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Road to Neah Bay
2. The Road to Neah Bay Begins in Chicago
3. The University of Chicago, the Army, and Seattle
4. Becoming a Lawyer
5. Seven Years of Lawyering in West Seattle
6. Creating a Law Firm
7. Indian Fishing Rights: Joining the Struggle
8. The Makahs
9. Recovering Lost Property: Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah
10. The Lummi Tribe
11. Indian Fishing Rights: Eighty Years of Suppression, Twenty Years of Confrontation
12. The Big Bang: U.S. v. Washington Begins
13. U.S. v. Washington: The Trial
14. U.S. v. Washington: Closing Arguments and Judge Boldt’s Decision
15. The U.S. Supreme Court Has the Last Word: Consequences of the Boldt Decision
16. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
17. The Northern Cheyennes Fight Strip-Mining
18. The Northern Cheyennes and the Hollowbreast Case
19. The Oliphant Case: A Setback for Tribal Government
20. Writing about the Indian Civil Rights Act
21. Leaving Law for Academia
22. A Firm of Tribal Attorneys
23. Representing Fishermen of the Alaska Peninsula
24. The Mille Lacs Band of Chippewas
25. The Wanda Boswell Case
26. The Northern Arapaho Tribe
27. Photographing the Northern Cheyennes
28. The Makah Whale Hunt
29. A Life in Being
Notes
Selected Bibliography
A propos de l’auteur
Charles Wilkinson is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. His fourteen books on law, history, and society in the American West include the standard law casebooks on Indian Law and Federal Public Land Law; The Eagle Bird: Mapping A New West (Pantheon Books, 1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (Island Press, 1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (University of Washington Press, 2000); Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (W.W. Norton & Co., 2005); and The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon (University of Washington Press, 2010).
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