American Indians and U.S. politics
Subtitle: a companion reader
By: edited by John M. Meyer ; foreword by David E. Wilkins
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Politics and government; Indians of North America; Government relations
Description: Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: A peculiar covenant: American Indian peoples and the U.S. Constitution / JeDon A. Emenhiser; title: Native American political traditions / Taiaiake Alfred; title: Tribal governments / Sharon O'Brien; title: "Neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring": the citizenship status of American Indians, 1830-1924 / Jill E. Martin; title: Freedom, law, and prophecy: a brief history of Native American religious resistance / Lee Irwin; title: The new Indian politics / Stephen Cornell; title: Passing California's proposition 5: the inside story of how the Indian gaming initiative won despite big-time opposition / Richard Maullin; title: Bury my heart in committee / David Van Biema; title: Ronald Reagan's Indian policy in retrospect: economic crisis and political irony / Samuel R. Cook; title: Lost tribes: Native Americans and government anthropologists feud over Indian identity / Peter Beinart; title: Let the healing begin: asking for the forgiveness of the Native Americans / Kevin Gover; title: "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; title: The U.S. Supreme Court's explication of "federal plenary power": an analysis of case law affecting tribal sovereignty, 1886-1914 / David E. Wilkins; title: Triangulated power and the environment: tribes, the federal government, and the states / Jace Weaver.