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A Comparison: Lessons From The Columbia Basin And The Upper Colorado Basin Fish Recovery Efforts, Mary Christina Wood
A Comparison: Lessons From The Columbia Basin And The Upper Colorado Basin Fish Recovery Efforts, Mary Christina Wood
Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act (Summer Conference, June 9-12)
47 pages.
Contains 5 pages of references.
Context And Legitimacy In Federal Indian Law, Philip P. Frickey
Context And Legitimacy In Federal Indian Law, Philip P. Frickey
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Frank Pommersheim, Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life
Henry Berry Lowry: Champion Of The Dispossessed, David E. Wilkins
Henry Berry Lowry: Champion Of The Dispossessed, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
The nineteenth century stands apart in the minds of indigenous peoples as a period of extreme hardship. Tribes in the first half of this era, were initially victimized by the enactment of devastating "segregation" measures (i.e. the Indian Removal policy and later the Reservation policy). Later in the century, when it was clear that segregation was an insufficient response to intercultural relations, the federal government shifted its powerful attention to a series of overtly ethnocidal "civilization," or better termed, "Americanization" measures. Broadly stated, such measures entailed the cultural assimilation, the spiritual assimilation, and the physical assimilation of indigenous lands and …
Indian Religious Freedom: Recognized/Denied, David E. Wilkins
Indian Religious Freedom: Recognized/Denied, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Clinton's sacred site executive order applies to all "federal lands" and to all "recognized" Indian tribes. A "sacred site" is defined as "any specific, discrete, narrowly delineated location of Federal land that is identified by an Indian tribe, or Indian individual... as sacred by virtue of its established religious significance to, or ceremonial use by, an Indian religion; provided that the tribe or appropriately authoritative representative of an Indian religion has informed the agency of the existence of such a site."
The issue that seemed most troublesome from William Downes' legal perspective, besides the alleged Establishment clause violation, was that …