Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho But Mud has no idea

But Mud has no idea that she's about to embark on a vision quest that will involve deceit

"Nora Murphy defines her work as cultural outsider: she listens

Native Alaskan

even when the strangers came well armed

and reinvigorating Indigenous cultures

Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Arapaho But Mud has no ideaRobert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned "like a loaded weapon" in the Supreme Court's Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall's foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing