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White Tape And Indian Wards: Removing The Federal Bureaucracy To Empower Tribal Economies And Self-Government, Adam Crepelle
White Tape And Indian Wards: Removing The Federal Bureaucracy To Empower Tribal Economies And Self-Government, Adam Crepelle
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
American Indians have the highest poverty rate in the United States, and dire poverty ensnares many reservations. With no private sector and abysmal infrastructure, reservations are frequently likened to third-world countries. Present-day Indian poverty is a direct consequence of present-day federal Indian law and policy. Two-hundred-year-old laws premised on Indian incompetency remain a part of the U.S. legal system; accordingly, Indian country is bound by heaps of federal regulations that apply nowhere else in the United States. The federal regulatory structure impedes tribal economic development and prevents tribes from controlling their own resources.
This Article asserts the federal regulatory “white …
Failed Protectors: The Indian Trust And Killers Of The Flower Moon, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Failed Protectors: The Indian Trust And Killers Of The Flower Moon, Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Michigan Law Review
Review of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Impact Of Climate Change, Rebecca Tsosie
Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Impact Of Climate Change, Rebecca Tsosie
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)
Presenter: Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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