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The Challenge Of Indigenous Self-Determination, Russel Lawrence Barsh
The Challenge Of Indigenous Self-Determination, Russel Lawrence Barsh
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The Earth Summit at Rio was the first global negotiation in which indigenous peoples participated directly. They did so with the aim of advocating land rights and greater self-determination in the fields of natural-resource management and development. They justified these claims by arguing that indigenous peoples are superior stewards of the land and that strengthening indigenous peoples' traditional economies would contribute to solving global ecological and economic problems. This approach succeeded all too well. Jaded diplomats and environmental ministers seized on the hopeful possibility that indigenous economics actually might work better than discredited socialism and overextended capitalism, and they invited …
Native American Inmates And Prison Grooming Regulations: Today's Justified Scalps: Iron Eyes V. Henry, William Norman
Native American Inmates And Prison Grooming Regulations: Today's Justified Scalps: Iron Eyes V. Henry, William Norman
American Indian Law Review
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Breaking Into The Intergovernmental Matrix: The Lumbee Tribe's Efforts To Secure Federal Acknowledgment, David E. Wilkins
Breaking Into The Intergovernmental Matrix: The Lumbee Tribe's Efforts To Secure Federal Acknowledgment, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
This article discusses the concept of political recognition (both federal and state) of Indian tribes; explains the difference between administrative and legislative recognition; examines who is or should be empowered to extend federal recognition, the Congress or the executive branch; discusses the major factors that have compelled the Lumbees to seek federal recognition when they were already acknowledged by the state; and examines the major factors that have precluded them from securing complete federal recognition.
The First Americans And The "Free" Exercise Of Religion, Martin C. Loesch
The First Americans And The "Free" Exercise Of Religion, Martin C. Loesch
American Indian Law Review
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Controlling Blue Skies In Indian Country: Who Is The Air Quality Posse--Tribes Or States? The Applicability Of The Clean Air Act In Indian Country And On Oklahoma Tribal Lands, Julie M. Reding
American Indian Law Review
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American Indian Influence On The United States Constitution And Its Framers, Robert J. Miller
American Indian Influence On The United States Constitution And Its Framers, Robert J. Miller
American Indian Law Review
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Guatemalan Political History: National Indian Policy, 1532-1954, David E. Wilkins
Guatemalan Political History: National Indian Policy, 1532-1954, David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
The relationship between the Spanish and later the Guatemalan state with the Mayan Indians over the past four centuries is a fundamental component of Guatemalan political history. Since the beginnings of the nation, when the Mayans were political and military entities of power and independence with whom the Spanish had to come to terms; to the 1944-1954 "Revolutionary Era," when Indian communities were finally conceded limited social, economic, and political rights; and the period from 1979 to 1984 in which the military regimes killed "tens of thousands by some estimates as high as 80,000" Indians; the Indian population has been …
Transformations In Supreme Court Thought: The Irresistible Force (Federal Indian Law & Policy) Meets The Movable Object (American Indian Tribal Status), David E. Wilkins
Transformations In Supreme Court Thought: The Irresistible Force (Federal Indian Law & Policy) Meets The Movable Object (American Indian Tribal Status), David E. Wilkins
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
This article is a content analysis examination of 107 federal court cases involving American Indian tribal sovereignty and federal plenary power rendered between 1870 and 1921. Our focus, however, is the U.S. Supreme Court's Indian Law jurisprudence; thus ninety of the cases analyzed were Supreme Court opinions. The cases seemingly entail two separate braces of opinions. One brace included decisions which affirmed tribal sovereignty. The other brace entailed cases which negatively affected tribal sovereignty. These negative decisions generally relied on doctrines such as plenary power, the political question doctrine, or the so- called “guardian-ward” relationship. We argue that the Supreme …