Contemporary Native American Political Issues

by Johnson, Troy

• ISBN13: 9780761990611
• ISBN10: 0761990615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-14
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Essays discuss the loss of sovereignty, international recognition, economic matters, and other questions

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(8)
Troy R. Johnson
PART I NATIONALISM AND SOVEREIGNTY	15	(84)
The Tragedy and the Travesty: The Subversion of Indigenous Sovereignty in North America	17	(56)
Ward Churchill
The past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism	73	(26)
Arif Dirlik
PART II INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS RIGHTS	99	(36)
Recent United Nations Initiatives Concerning the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	103	(16)
Stephen V. Quesenberry
Claiming Memory in British Columbia: Aboriginal Rights and the State	119	(16)
Fae L. Korsmo
PART III ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT	135	(40)
Traditional American Indian Economic Policy	139	(24)
Ronald L. Trosper
Indian Gaming: Financial and Regulatory Issues	163	(12)
Gary C.
PART IV LAW AND JUSTICE	175	(52)
The Contextual Nature of American Indian Criminality	179	(18)
Donald E. Green
Public Law 280 and the Problem of `Lawlessness' in California Indian Country	197	(30)
Carole Goldberg
PART V REPATRIATION	227	(54)
Nebraska's Landmark Repatriation Law: A Study of Cross-Cultural Conflict and Resolution	229	(46)
Robert M. Peregoy
Acknowledging the Repatriation Claims of Unacknowledged California Tribes	275	(6)
Carole Goldberg
PART VI ACTIVISM	281	(34)
American Indian Activism and Transformation: Lessons from Alcatraz	283	(32)
Troy Johnson
Duane Champagne
Joane Nagel
Index	315	(8)
Acknowledgments	323	(1)
About the Editor	324