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On "Indian justice"article 1963 • MacLachlan, Bruce B.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
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 just...The Mescalero Apache quest for law and orderarticle 1964 • MacLachlan, Bruce B.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source contains a discussion of the growth of Euro-American style police, courts, and judges among the Mescalero. It also contains information on the development of a code of laws and the kinds of crimes and offenses which were common at various...