The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating

by Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Overview

Even before the Revolutionary War, American colonists feared and fought “merciless Indian savages,” and through the following centuries, American law and policy have been molded by the relentless tradition of Indian-hating. From proportional representation and restrictions on the right to bear arms, to the break-up of tribal property rights and the destruction of Indian culture and family, the attacks on tribal governance and people continue and remain endemic. More than just a study of the progression of law, this book balances each chapter’s history with the relating of a traditional Anishinaabe story or teaching, providing both context and a roadmap for survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682752333
Publisher:	Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date:	10/14/2020
Edition description:	None
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	417,527
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Matthew L.M. Fletcher, a member of the Grand Traverse Band, is Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He sits as the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and the Tulalip Tribes. In addition to writing Federal Indian Law and Principles of Federal Indian Law, Fletcher has co-authored numerous publications, and is the primary editor and author of the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk, http://turtletalk.wordpress.com/.

Table of Contents

Prelude vii

Introduction xi

Part I Ancient Indian-Hating

1 The Framers of the Second Amendment 3

2 Lewis Cass and the Anishinaabe Allies of the British 17

3 The Osage Nation's Trustee 23

4 The Experiment of Assimilation 33

5 Allotment - This Is Not Your Way to Get Food 39

6 The Reservation as a School 47

7 Baby Stealing (Ancient) 63

Part II Modern Indian-Hating

8 Theories on Supersession and Antisupersession 73

9 Dog Whistles 85

10 The Non-Indian Way of Life 95

11 The Martinez FixerS 105

12 Equal Rights Über Alles 115

13 Squabbles in Local Government 123

14 Privatizing Indian Lands 129

15 Every Two Years at a Site Some Distance Away: Indian-Haters on Indian Religions 137

16 The American Constitutionalists versus the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Influence Theory 145

17 Baby Stealing (Modern) 157

Conclusion 169

Postlude for Owen and Emmett 173

Acknowledgments 175

References 176

Anishinaabe Terms 194

Index 196

Editorial Reviews

"The Ghost Road is an informative, incisive, and witty tour through Native America that reveals the fault lines of US federal and tribal relations while highlighting Native cultural persistence and political innovation." —Tiya Miles, author of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits 


"Philosophical, historical, and sobering – this gripping journey through the underpinnings of today’s reality transforms our views about discrimination in America." —Kyle Whyte, Professor and Timmick Chair, Michigan State University


"The Ghost Road addresses some of the greatest challenges faced by Indian people in times past, and today: anti-Indian animus, or more clearly - Indian hating." —John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School

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