| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory. By Christian W. McMillen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xviii + 284 pp. Maps, notes, index. $38.00.)

In 1883, President Chester A. Arthur created the Hualapai Indian Reservation in Arizona, following boundaries U. S. Army officers had traced two years earlier. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF) laid tracks across the southern edge of the reservation. Following the 1866 Railroad Act, the ATSF claimed alternate sections of land along its right of way within the reservation. The conflicting claims of the giant corporation and the Hualapai people eventually came before the federal courts. A district judge held for the ATSF; the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. In 1941, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a precedent-setting opinion reversing the lower courts. Douglas's opinion altered the course of U. S. Indian Law and influenced jurists in other English speaking nations.

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