Matthew L. M. Fletcher

Matthew L. M. Fletcher is Professor and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center, Michigan State University College of Law; and an enrolled member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa an...

Eagle Returns, The
The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band

Matthew L. M. Fletcher

An absorbing and comprehensive survey, The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians shows a group bound by kinship, geography, and language, struggling to reestablish their right to self-governance. Hailing from northwest Lower Michigan, the Grand Traverse Band has become a well-known national leader in advancing Indian treaty rights, gaming, and land rights, while simultaneously creating and developing a nationally honored indigenous tribal justice system. This book will serve as a valuable reference for policymakers, lawyers, and Indian people who want to explore how federal Indian law and policy drove an Anishinaabe community to the brink of legal extinction, how non-Indian economic and political interests conspired to eradicate the community’s self-sufficiency, and how Indian people fought to preserve their culture, laws, traditions, governance, and language.

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"...highly recommended." - Midwest Book Review

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Journal of African History

American Indian Studies Series

B&W photos, maps, notes, references, index world rights 288 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", January 2012 Cloth, $29.95, 978-1-61186-022-1 978-1-61186-022-1