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By Amy E. Den Ouden, Jean M. O'Brien
This attractive assortment surveys and clarifies the complicated factor of federal and country popularity for local American tribal countries within the usa. Den Ouden and O'Brien assemble concentrated and teachable essays on key subject matters, debates, and case reviews. Written through top students within the box, together with historians, anthropologists, felony students, and political scientists, the essays conceal the heritage of popularity, concentrate on fresh criminal and cultural approaches, and think about modern reputation struggles nationwide.
Contributors are Joanne Barker (Lenape), Kathleen A. Brown-Perez (Brothertown), Rosemary Cambra (Muwekma Ohlone), Amy E. Den Ouden, Timothy Q. Evans (Haliwa-Saponi), Les W. box, Angela A. Gonzales (Hopi), Rae Gould (Nipmuc), J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), ok. Alexa Koenig, Alan Leventhal, Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee), Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), John Robinson, Jonathan Stein, Ruth Garby Torres (Schaghticoke), and David E. Wilkins (Lumbee).
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Hauptman, “There Are No Indians East of the Mississippi,” in Tribes and Tribulations: Misconception about American Indians and Their Histories (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995), 93–108. Introduction 27 7. Cramer, Cash, Color, and Colonialism, 137. 8. Seneca legal scholar Robert Porter has argued that the emergence of the rich casino Indian stereotype may elicit “more openly predatory” attitudes toward native peoples from nonnatives in the United States, intensifying what he describes as the “new termination era” of federal Indian policy.
N. -Indian Relations,” Indian Country Today, December 30, 2010. 37. S. Changed Its Position on Declaration? Not Really,” Indian Country Today, December 31, 2010. 38. com, December 25, 2010. 39. David E. Wilkins and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, American Indian Politics and the American Political System, 3rd ed. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011), 312. 40. , 312–13. 41. , 3, 310–11. 42. , 308. 43. ; Cherokee Nation v. S. 1 (1831). 44. Wilkins and Stark, American Indian Politics, 11. 45. , 8.
Laws and policies that denied the existence and the rights of tribal nations, such as the termination policy imposed in the mid-twentieth century, must be 26 Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien analyzed in terms of their genocidal implications. A 1959 resolution of the National Congress of American Indians described termination as a policy that “can only lead to tremendous suffering by the Indian people” (“Reaffirmed NCAI Policy Resolution for Indian Program, 1959,” in Of Utmost Good Faith, ed.