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On "Indian justice"
Plains Anthropologist, Journal of The Plains Conference • 8 (22) • Published In 1963 • Pages: 257-261
By: MacLachlan, Bruce B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source describes and discusses the 1908 murder of a White man by a Mescalero and the subsequent execution of the murderer by an all Mescalero posse. Previous discussions of this incident have accounted for the execution as a form of 'Indian justice'. MacLachlan, however offers the interpretation that the case illustrates 'perceptive Indian leadership executing a task which was thrust upon it by the dominant white society so that the task was accomplished with the least possible harm to the community as a whole'.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Informal in-group justice
- Offenses against life
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1979-1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Bruce B. MacLachlan
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66038259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians