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Tribal Moment in American Politics: The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty

Tribal Moment in American Politics: The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty

Gray, Christine K.

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Native American Communities

Native American History

ISBN10: 1442252839
ISBN13: 9781442252837
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jul 15 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

In the tribal moment in American politics, which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems. The U.S. government responded characteristically, overall wielding its authority in incremental, frequently double-edged ways that simultaneously opened and restricted tribal options. The actions of Native Americans and public officials brought about a new era of tribal-American relations in which tribal sovereignty has become a central issue, underpinning self-determination, and involving the tribes, states, and federal government in intergovernmental cooperative activities as well as jurisdictional skirmishes.

American Indian tribes struggle still with the impacts of a capitalist economy on their traditional ways of life. Most rely heavily on federal support. Yet they have also called on tribal sovereignty to protect themselves. Asking how and why the United States is willing to accept tribal sovereignty, this book examines the development of the order of Indian affairs. Beginning with the nation's founding, it brings to light the hidden assumptions in that order. It examines the underlying deep contradictions that have existed in the relationship between the United States and the tribes as the order has evolved, up to and into the tribal moment.

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