Bøger af Clare V. McKanna

On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County. Within minutes, neighbors subdued the alleged killer, Jose Gabriel, a sixty-year-old itinerant Native American handyman. The murder trial of Gabriel highlights the legal injustices committed against Native Americans in the 19th century.

Reveals how, time and again, the judicial system of nineteenth-century Arizona denied Apaches justice. Through case studies of different murder trials, this title probes the federal and state governments treatment of Americas indigenous populations and the cultural clashes that left justice the greatest casualty.

A legal odyssey of the Indian scout who became a Western legend.