Land rights, claims, and western shoshones: The ideology of loss and the bureaucracy of enforcement

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-311

  Clemmer, Richard O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Indian Claims Commission; Land rights; Native Americans; Shoshones; ideology of loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956169444     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2009.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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