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.

Book Review of Christian W. McMillen’s “Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory”

My short book review of Christian W. McMillen‘s excellent book, “Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory” (Yale University Press) is available for download here. My review appears in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.