The Erosion of Tribal Power
The Supreme Court's Silent Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7306547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Tsianina Lomawaima (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 997-998 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax439 |
| OpenAlex | W2809369107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Dewi Ioan Ball's dense descriptions of Supreme Court decision making from 1959 to 2001 draw on case law, enriched by the open-to-the-public papers of seven justices: Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, William Douglas, Hugo Lafayette Black, Earl Warren, and Lewis Powell. Ball argues for a “silent revolution” as key justices eroded the “Indian sovereignty doctrine” to favor an “integrationist” stance that allowed significant intrusions of state law onto reservations (pp. 4, 33). The Court usually supported inherent sovereign authority over tribal members on reservation (tribal or trust) lands but systematically attacked tribal authority over nonmembers, first on nonmember (fee) land and then on trust or tribal lands. Why Ball calls the revolution “silent” rests on two assertions: that the Court's revolution was never challenged by Congress and that the Court's “mindset” developed out of public sight (p. 4). The Court's “sweeping ideological changes” are revealed through analysis of the papers accessed in the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration (p. 6
Doctrine · Ideology · Mindset · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Supreme court · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |