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Date of this Version
2022
Document Type
Presentation
Citation
Samantha Byrd, "Habeas Corpus: Breaking Reservation Boundaries" [Research Poster]
Digital Legal Research Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Undergraduate Creative and Research Experience (UCARE), 2022
Abstract
Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky’s Petitioning for Freedom examines marginalized peoples’ use of habeas corpus in the American West from 1812 to 1924. This project has uncovered Indigenous manipulation of the American legal system to counter the challenges of colonialism. Indigenous peoples used habeas to protest, and sometimes successfully mitigate boarding school experiences, forced removal, and confinement on reservations. This study aims to show how Indigenous peoples and other minorities had a complex understanding of the law and used it to their advantage.
Advisor: Katrina Jagodinsky
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Copyright 2024, Samantha Byrd. Used by permission