In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care, education, religious freedom, law enforcement, gaming, and taxation. Yet these gains have not gone unchallenged. Starting in the late 1980s, states have tried to regulate and profit from casino gambling on Indian lands. Treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather remain hotly contested, and traditional religious practices have been denied protection. Tribal courts struggle with state and federal courts for jurisdiction. David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of the ambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.
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David E. Wilkins is Professor of American Indian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Law, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and coauthor of Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law.�
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Professor David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has adjunct appointments in political science, law, and American studies. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1990. Wilkins's research and teaching interests include indigenous politics and governance, federal Indian policy and law, comparative politics, and diplomacy and constitutional development.
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This is a well-researched, highly readable, yet scholarly treatment of a timely subject that is sure to attract attention in the coming years. The authors review often competing legal precedents in Federal law as they relate to Indian legal issues and find that inconsistencies, including varied interpretations together with the age old imbalance of power, has resulted in justice for American Indians being built on a bed of sand that is unfair, unpredictable, and in need of clarification. The book includes a thorough discussion on the Doctrine of Discovery, the Trust Doctrine, the Doctrine of Plenary Power, and the Doctrine of Soverign Immunity and is highly recommended for those readers interested in this expanding area of Native American studies. These are the kind of issues that led to the Wounded Knee disaster of the 1970s.
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When the Pilgrims landed on the coast of what would one day be called New England, desperate to replenish their dwindling supplies (especially of beer), they had no intention of settling; they were headed for the mouth of the Hudson River, in what was termed Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribal sovereign immunity, tribal immunity, abrogate treaty rights, political question rule, implied repeal doctrine, preemptive definition, reserved rights doctrine, disclaim all right, disclaimer clauses, congressional plenary power, tribal consent, implied repeals, equal footing doctrine, discovery doctrine, indigenous vision, trust doctrine, expansive doctrine, tribal sovereignty, reserved water rights, treaty modification, tribal nations, territorial acts, preemptive power, political question doctrine, full legal title Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Lone Wolf, Great Britain, American Indian, North America, New Mexico, Race Horse, Tenth Amendment, Mille Lacs, South Dakota, Fifth Amendment, North Dakota, Chief Justice John Marshall, Sioux Nation, Northwest Ordinance, Revolutionary War, Slade Gorton, Treaty of Paris, Court of Claims, Iroquois Confederacy, Seminole Tribe, Senator Inouye, Vine Deloria, Crow Dog New!
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When the Pilgrims landed on the coast of what would one day be called New England, desperate to replenish their dwindling supplies (especially of beer), they had no intention of settling; they were headed for the mouth of the Hudson River, in what was termed Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tribal sovereign immunity, tribal immunity, abrogate treaty rights, political question rule, implied repeal doctrine, preemptive definition, reserved rights doctrine, disclaim all right, disclaimer clauses, congressional plenary power, tribal consent, implied repeals, equal footing doctrine, discovery doctrine, indigenous vision, trust doctrine, expansive doctrine, tribal sovereignty, reserved water rights, treaty modification, tribal nations, territorial acts, preemptive power, political question doctrine, full legal title Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Lone Wolf, Great Britain, American Indian, North America, New Mexico, Race Horse, Tenth Amendment, Mille Lacs, South Dakota, Fifth Amendment, North Dakota, Chief Justice John Marshall, Sioux Nation, Northwest Ordinance, Revolutionary War, Slade Gorton, Treaty of Paris, Court of Claims, Iroquois Confederacy, Seminole Tribe, Senator Inouye, Vine Deloria, Crow Dog New!
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