Arguing with Tradition

List of Illustrations        
Acknowledgments
 
1 Introduction: Arguing with Tradition in Native America
   The Ironies of Indigeneity         
   Native American Tribal Law and Tradition       
   “Anglo” Law in Indian Country: Courts of Indian Offenses        
   Tribal Courts Today: At the Edge of Tribal Sovereignty
   The Dearth of Ethnographies of Tribal Courts   
   The Approach and Aims of This Study 
   An Outline of This Study          
 
2 Making a Hopi Nation: “Anglo” Law Comes to Hopi Country           
   Hopi Tribal Governance           
   Hopi Village Organization and Governance       
   Court Comes to Hopi Country 
   The Hopi Tribal Court Today   
   Data and Methodologies: Talking Tradition in Hopi Property Disputes  
 
3 “What are you going to do with the village’s knowledge?” Language Ideologies and Legal Power in Hopi Tribal Court           
   Legal Discourse Analysis and Legal Power
   Language Ideologies, Metadiscourse, and Metapragmatics
   Talking Tradition, Talking Law in Hopi Courtroom Interactions 
   The Language Ideologies of Anglo-American Law versus Hopi Traditional Authority
   Conclusion
 
4 “He could not speak Hopi. . . . That puzzle— puzzled me”: The  Pragmatic Paradoxes of Hopi Tradition in Court       
   Paradox in the Pragmatics of Language and Law          
   Discourses of Cultural Difference in Hopi Court
   Iterations of Indigeneity in a Hopi Court Hearing
   Conclusion
 
5 Suffering into Truth: Hopi Law as Narrative Interaction
   Legal Narrativity in and out of Court
   A Model of Hopi Law as Narrative Interaction
   The Significance of Settings: Judicial Openings of Hopi Courtroom Narrative
   The Contested Narrativity of a Hopi Property Proceeding
   Conclusion
 
6 Conclusion: Arguments with Tradition
   Tradition, Culture, and the Politics of Authenticity
   Arguing with Tradition
 
Notes  
References
Index