1913
Court decisionBook sources
United States v. Sandoval and paternalistic federal protection
New Mexico; Pueblo peoples
Federal protection of Pueblo lands and affairs was supported by judicial language portraying Pueblo people as inferior and dependent. The decision illustrates how protective outcomes could rest on racist reasoning.
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Context / qualification
Mixed outcome: protection against some intrusions alongside racialized paternalism.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8