New Yale University Press Book on The History of the Tule River Tribe (by Gelya Frank & Carole Goldberg)

Defying the Odds

The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries

  • Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg

  • Mar 15, 2010
    432 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
    40 b/w illus. + 15 maps
    ISBN: 9780300120165
    ISBN-10: 0300120168

An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current Indian gaming era.

Gelya Frank is Professor of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the Tule River Tribal History Project. Carole Goldberg is the Jonathan D. Varat Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies.

Carole Goldberg on Justice Ginsburg’s Indian Law Decisions

Carole Goldberg published “Finding the Way to Indian Country: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Decisions in Indian Law Cases,” in the Ohio State Law Journal.

This, along with Al Ziontz’s recollection of the ACLU‘s split over how to approach Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez during then-Professor Ginsburg’s tenure as head of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, is critical reading.

Report on PL 280 Published

From Indian Country Today:

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LOS ANGELES – When attorney Carole Goldberg was asked by a law professor at Stanford Law School in 1970 to research Public Law 280 for a book he was writing, she produced a 100-page paper.

The subject intrigued her, she told Indian Country Today.

Now, 38 years and dozens of articles later, Goldberg is an acknowledged expert on P.L. 280 and, with her University of California – Los Angeles colleague Duane Champagne, recently completed a 568-page report called ”Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice under Public Law 280.”

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