Foreword / Patricia Nelson Limerick
The courts of the conqueror
A context for understanding Native American issues
Justice, injustice, and the dark side of federal Indian law
Johnson v. M'Intosh : how the Indians lost legal title to America
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia : shutting the courthouse doors
Connors v. United States & Cheyenne Indians : were the Indian wars legal?
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : breaking the treaties
United States v. Sandoval : rule by guardianship
In re adoption of John Doe v. Heim : taking the kids
Wana the Bear v. Community Construction : taking the dead
Employment Division v. Smith : taking the religion
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Association : taking the holy places
Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States : confiscating indigenous habitat
Was genocide legal?
Reforming the dark side of federal Indian law
Afterword / by Charles Wilkinson.