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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: American Indians and U.S. politics. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 (OCoLC)655422496 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John M Meyer |
| ISBN: | 027597264X 9780275972646 027597278X 9780275972783 |
| OCLC Number: | 48170863 |
| Description: | xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | A peculiar covenant: American Indian peoples and the U.S. Constitution / JeDon A. Emenhiser -- Native American political traditions / Taiaiake Alfred -- Tribal governments / Sharon O'Brien -- "Neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring": the citizenship status of American Indians, 1830-1924 / Jill E. Martin -- Freedom, law, and prophecy: a brief history of Native American religious resistance / Lee Irwin -- The new Indian politics / Stephen Cornell -- Passing California's proposition 5: the inside story of how the Indian gaming initiative won despite big-time opposition / Richard Maullin -- Bury my heart in committee / David Van Biema -- Ronald Reagan's Indian policy in retrospect: economic crisis and political irony / Samuel R. Cook -- Lost tribes: Native Americans and government anthropologists feud over Indian identity / Peter Beinart -- Let the healing begin: asking for the forgiveness of the Native Americans / Kevin Gover -- "Watch your six": an Indian Nation judge's view of 25 years of Indian law, where we are, and where we are going / Robert Yazzie -- The U.S. Supreme Court's explication of "federal plenary power": an analysis of case law affecting tribal sovereignty, 1886-1914 / David E. Wilkins -- Triangulated power and the environment: tribes, the federal government, and the states / Jace Weaver. |
| Responsibility: | edited by John M. Meyer ; foreword by David E. Wilkins. |
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"Most Americans know little about Native governments, and this work addresses the need for information on their internal and external affairs....Editor John Meyer is to be congratulated for preparing a reader that will be a very useful supplement to courses on US government and politics. Recommended for general readers, lower-division undergraduates, and two-year technical program students."-Choice ?Most Americans know little about Native governments, and this work addresses the need for information on their internal and external affairs....Editor John Meyer is to be congratulated for preparing a reader that will be a very useful supplement to courses on US government and politics. Recommended for general readers, lower-division undergraduates, and two-year technical program students.?-Choice Read more...

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