Indian Trial

MCKANNA, CLARE V. The Trial Of " Indian Joe ": Race And Justice In The Nineteenth-century West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2007.

159 pages. On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County near the Mexican border. The two victims were an elderly couple, John and Wilhelmina Geyser, who lived on a farm on the edge of the mesa. Within minutes of discovering the crime, neighbors subdued and tied up the alleged killer, Jose Gabriel, a sixty-year-old itinerant Native American handyman from El Rosario, California, who worked for the couple. Since Gabriel was apprehended at the scene, most presumed his guilt. The local press, prosecutors, witnesses, and jurors called him by the epithet "Indian Joe." The sensational murder trial of Gabriel highlights the legal injustices committed against Native Americans in the nineteenth century. During this time, California Native Americans could not vote or serve on juries, so from the outset Gabriel was unlikely to receive a fair trial. No motive for murder was established, and the evidence against Gabriel was inconclusive. Nonetheless, the case went forward. Drawing on court testimony and newspaper accounts, Clare V. McKanna Jr. traces the murder trial: the handling of the case by the prosecution, the defense, the jury, and the judge; an examination of the crime scene; and the imaging of "Indian Joe." Through his considerable research, McKanna sheds light on a dark time in the American legal system. Clare V. McKanna Jr. is a lecturer in history and American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. He is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 and Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California."The Trial of 'Indian Joe' is a scholarly monograph that reads sometimes like a whodunit and sometimes like a courtroom thriller. . . . [B]y book's end, the author has aroused our sympathies for Gabriel, noting that the very name bestowed upon him, 'Indian Joe,' conveyed the stereotypes . . . that afflicted Native Americans in California. . . . Recent events in California politics remind us that Native Americans are still being marginalized and victimized."-Los Angeles Times"McKanna very skillfully weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting very interesting information on capital punishment, juries, judges, and even the literary treatment of Indians. . . . This is high-quality history at its evidential best."-John R. Wunder, author of Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights "Nearly everyone loves a murder mystery. Clare McKanna has written one-and it is a good read-based on newspaper accounts and trial transcripts, featuring a double murder on Otay Mesa in San Diego County in 1892. . . . McKanna does an excellent job contextualizing the murders: San Diego County of the 1890s, the life of Indian laborers, and Gabriel's background in Baja, are well described. Moreover, he offers the reader a primer on crime scene investigation and legal strategies of criminal defense."-Roger D. McGrath, Western Historical Quarterly "McKenna presents an engaging story. . . . The compelling theme of the book is not about Gabriel's self-perception but rather about how those in power viewed him."-Southern California Quarterly "The author adeptly weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting 19th century information on capital punishment, juries, judges and the contemporary written treatment of Native Americans."-Doyle Logan, Jr., Southwest Book Views "Clare V. McKanna, Jr., tells a powerful story of racial injustice in southern California. This story, turning on the racism implicit in the nickname, "Indian Joe," is doubtlessly typical of marginal lives on the frontier."-Sidney L. Harring, American Historical Review
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[SW: (Key Words: Clare V. McKanna, Murder, Trials, American Indians, American West, John Geyser, Wilhelmina Geyser, Jose Gabriel, Native Americans).\]

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MCKANNA, CLARE V. The Trial Of " Indian Joe ": Race And Justice In The Nineteenth-century West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2007.

159 pages. On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County near the Mexican border. The two victims were an elderly couple, John and Wilhelmina Geyser, who lived on a farm on the edge of the mesa. Within minutes of discovering the crime, neighbors subdued and tied up the alleged killer, Jose Gabriel, a sixty-year-old itinerant Native American handyman from El Rosario, California, who worked for the couple. Since Gabriel was apprehended at the scene, most presumed his guilt. The local press, prosecutors, witnesses, and jurors called him by the epithet "Indian Joe." The sensational murder trial of Gabriel highlights the legal injustices committed against Native Americans in the nineteenth century. During this time, California Native Americans could not vote or serve on juries, so from the outset Gabriel was unlikely to receive a fair trial. No motive for murder was established, and the evidence against Gabriel was inconclusive. Nonetheless, the case went forward. Drawing on court testimony and newspaper accounts, Clare V. McKanna Jr. traces the murder trial: the handling of the case by the prosecution, the defense, the jury, and the judge; an examination of the crime scene; and the imaging of "Indian Joe." Through his considerable research, McKanna sheds light on a dark time in the American legal system. Clare V. McKanna Jr. is a lecturer in history and American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. He is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 and Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California."The Trial of 'Indian Joe' is a scholarly monograph that reads sometimes like a whodunit and sometimes like a courtroom thriller. . . . [B]y book's end, the author has aroused our sympathies for Gabriel, noting that the very name bestowed upon him, 'Indian Joe,' conveyed the stereotypes . . . that afflicted Native Americans in California. . . . Recent events in California politics remind us that Native Americans are still being marginalized and victimized."-Los Angeles Times"McKanna very skillfully weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting very interesting information on capital punishment, juries, judges, and even the literary treatment of Indians. . . . This is high-quality history at its evidential best."-John R. Wunder, author of Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights "Nearly everyone loves a murder mystery. Clare McKanna has written one-and it is a good read-based on newspaper accounts and trial transcripts, featuring a double murder on Otay Mesa in San Diego County in 1892. . . . McKanna does an excellent job contextualizing the murders: San Diego County of the 1890s, the life of Indian laborers, and Gabriel's background in Baja, are well described. Moreover, he offers the reader a primer on crime scene investigation and legal strategies of criminal defense."-Roger D. McGrath, Western Historical Quarterly "McKenna presents an engaging story. . . . The compelling theme of the book is not about Gabriel's self-perception but rather about how those in power viewed him."-Southern California Quarterly "The author adeptly weaves the extensive trial transcript into a highly readable narrative while at the same time injecting 19th century information on capital punishment, juries, judges and the contemporary written treatment of Native Americans."-Doyle Logan, Jr., Southwest Book Views "Clare V. McKanna, Jr., tells a powerful story of racial injustice in southern California. This story, turning on the racism implicit in the nickname, "Indian Joe," is doubtlessly typical of marginal lives on the frontier."-Sidney L. Harring, American Historical Review
Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Clare V. McKanna, Murder, Trials, American Indians, American West, John Geyser, Wilhelmina Geyser, Jose Gabriel, Native Americans).]

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Payne, John Howard: Indian Justice: A Cerokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840, 1962 Muskogee, Oklahoma Star Printery, Inc. ; fester Einband / hard cover

Cloth Very Good in Good dust jacket This is a hard cover book with maroon cloth covered boards. Silver titling on cover and spine. Dust jacket is unclipped. "The first complete account ever to be put in print of an indian trial, the first newspaper account of a court trial in the Oklahoma, and one of the best ever written in any state." Edited with introduction and footnotes by Grant Foreman. Illustrated frontispiece. Includes b/w illustrations. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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North: A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Northern Administration Branch: Bound Issues, January Through December 1966 - Volume 13, Ottawa Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources 1966 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Ex-Library

[SW: North: A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Northern Administration Branch: Bound Issues, January Through December 1966 - Volume 13 Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources Government of Canada Eskimo Native Peoples Inuit Northern Canada Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife.Native Peoples Magazine Back Issues]

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