The Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty - Softcover

Jill Norgren (author), Kermit L. Hall (Foreword By) & Melvin I. Urofsky (Foreword By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806136065 ISBN 13: 9780806136066

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

Synopsis

In 1880, Charles M. Russell headed west to Montana, where he worked as a wrangler and chronicled in paint, ink, and watercolor the West and its people. For his splendid depictions of bronco riders, roundups, and everyday ranch life, Russell soon became known as "the Cowboy Artist." Yet this "Cowboy Artist" also spent much time among the Indians and developed a sympathetic understanding of and appreciation for their efforts to preserve their way of life. Russell’s memorable paintings and drawings portray a frontier that was vanishing, not only for Indians but also for cowboys.Peter H. Hassrick discusses Russell’s work in the context of the artist’s experiences in the West and the people who influenced his artistic style.

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About the Author

Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita of government and legal studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is coauthor of Partial Justice: Federal Indian Law in a Liberal-Constitutional System and American Cultural Pluralism and Law and author of a forthcoming biography of Belva Lockwood.

Melvin I. Urofsky, professor of History and Constitutional Law at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the author or editor of several books, including A March of Liberty: A Constitution History of the United States, The Continuity of Change: The Supreme Court and Individual Liberties, and “Half Brother, Half Son”: The Letters of Louis D. Brandeis to Felix Frankfurter.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806136065
• ISBN 13: 9780806136066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224