Livelihood and Tribal Government on the Klamath Indian Reservation

1961 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
Theodore Stern
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Dynamic Expression ◽  
Concert Action

The capacity to concert action, which is so distinctive an attribute of society, may take many forms, of which the political is the most inclusive. Upon Indian reservations today, the vitality and effectiveness of tribal government may be taken to constitute a dynamic expression of their shared community; and their readiness to enter into relationship with non-Indian entities, either as participant individuals or through the collective instrumentality of the tribe, may provide a measure of their adjustment to the larger society which embraces the reservation.

"Washington is a Long Way Off": The "Round Valley War" and the Limits of Federal Power on a California Indian Reservation

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-596
Author(s):  
Kevin Adams ◽  
Khal Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Federal State ◽  
Coercive Power ◽  
Northern California ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
Mendocino County ◽  
Indian Affairs ◽  
Local Courts

In 1887 the Office of Indian Affairs requested that the Army evict the handful of white trespassers who claimed over 90 percent of the Round Valley Reservation in Northern California. The trespassers turned to local courts to block their evictions, and a county judge dispatched the Mendocino County sheriff to arrest the federal officer who persisted with his orders. The ensuing "Round Valley War" shows that, although elites associated with Indian affairs took federal supremacy on Indian Reservations for granted, and while historians have also tended to treat the West, and "Indian Country" in particular, as a domain where federal prerogatives reigned supreme, in the aftermath of the Civil War anti-statism and Democratic localism presented effective counterclaims to the coercive power of the federal state.

Fragmented Ownership and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Leonard ◽  
Dominic P Parker
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Oil Boom ◽  
Joint Ownership ◽  
Empirical Tests

Abstract Does land fragmentation impair spatially expansive natural resource use? We conduct empirical tests using ownership variation on the Bakken, one of the world's most valuable shale oil reserves. Long before shale was discovered, U.S. policies created a mosaic of private, jointly owned, and tribal government parcels on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. We find that all three forms of fragmentation reduced production during the 2010–2015 oil boom, especially joint ownership and the interspersion of small parcels of government and private land. We estimate implied gains from consolidation and discuss implications for the use (or conservation) of other spatially expansive resources.

scholarly journals The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Its Effects on American Indian Economic Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall K. Q. Akee ◽  
Katherine A. Spilde ◽  
Jonathan B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Indian Gaming ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
The Us ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ◽  
American Indian Reservations

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), passed by the US Congress in 1988, was a watershed in the history of policymaking directed toward reservation-resident American Indians. IGRA set the stage for tribal government-owned gaming facilities. It also shaped how this new industry would develop and how tribal governments would invest gaming revenues. Since then, Indian gaming has approached commercial, state-licensed gaming in total revenues. Gaming operations have had a far-reaching and transformative effect on American Indian reservations and their economies. Specifically, Indian gaming has allowed marked improvements in several important dimensions of reservation life. For the first time, some tribal governments have moved to fiscal independence. Native nations have invested gaming revenues in their economies and societies, often with dramatic effect.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Dimensions of China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Indian Reservations

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shoaib ◽  
Noor Jehan ◽  
Qamar uz Zaman
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
The Political ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Game Changer

China Pakistan Economic Corridor is a receptacle of territorial connectivity focusing on the significance of the geo strategic location of Pakistan. Pakistan and China have embarked on their best to implement the project to be triumphant in the concatenation of South Asia. The main bureaus that it encompasses are an integrated conveyance and I.T. network entailing Rail, Road, and data transmission channels, energy complicity, agrarian enhancement, social and economic progress, tourism alliance, financial and human resource integration. The corridor had some complications while implementation, but it has substantiated to be a game-changer program.This study assists in assessing the momentum amassed by Pakistan and China in South Asia while elaborating the beneficiaries of the CPEC and the potential threats faced by the political adversaries of Pakistan, especially India, on the triumphant facets bestowed by CPEC. The research will entangle the analysis of the short and long-term prospects of CPEC.

A Nation Within

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezra Rosser
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Navajo Nation ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
External Pressures

In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland or West Virginia, the Navajo reservation has seen successive waves of natural resource-based development over the last century: grazing and over-grazing, oil and gas, uranium, and coal; yet Navajos continue to suffer from high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rosser shows the connection between the exploitation of these resources and the growth of the tribal government before turning to contemporary land use and development challenges. He argues that, in addition to the political challenges associated with any significant change, external pressures and internal corruption have made it difficult for the tribe to implement land reforms that could help provide space for economic development that would benefit the Navajo Nation and Navajo tribal members.

Sovereignty, tribal government, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Amendments of 1987

Polar Record ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (154) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Morehouse
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Federal Recognition ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Modern Form

AbstractContemporary dimensions of a conflict over the political powers of Alaska Natives and their relationship to the larger society were set by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971. This granted land and money to Alaska Natives, established corporations to use these assets, and ensured that the land and the corporations would remain under Native control until at least 1991. Under 1987 amendments to ANCSA, Congress extended these special protections indefinitely. Leaders of the tribal government movement in Alaska tried unsuccessfully to use the amendments to gain increased political power and federal recognition of Native tribes and tribal governments. They were opposed by federal authorities, Alaska's US senators, the State of Alaska, non-Native political interest groups, and Native leaders of the ANCSA corporations. Although stalled in this instance, the drive toward tribal government, or ‘sovereignty’, in Alaska remains a viable political movement. It is part of a continuing evolution of Native politics which in its modern form began with land claims and now includes a much broader concern for political claims of sovereignty, or inherent self-governing powers. In pursuing this course, however, tribal leaders will need to focus more on specific requirements for Native security and welfare than on general claims of sovereignty, and avoid direct confrontations with powerful opponents.

Developing a Toolkit to Improve Transportation Safety on Indian Reservations

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (7) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahima Nazneen ◽  
Trenna L. Terrill ◽  
Khaled Ksaibati
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Field Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transportation Safety ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Crash Data ◽  
Level I

Indian reservations hold the highest rate of crashes that lead to fatal and incapacitating injuries across the United States. Limited resources, absence of coordination across jurisdictions, and limited crash data make it difficult for tribes to reduce the number of these fatal and serious crashes. A safety toolkit was developed in this work to identify the high-risk crash locations and determine low-cost safety improvement countermeasures. The toolkit serves as a guideline and provides information, field examples, and resources in key topic areas to lead the effort to improve safety via the use of a five-step methodology. These five steps are, namely, compile data and crash data analysis, Level I field evaluation, combined ranking, Level II field evaluation to identify countermeasures, and benefit–cost analysis. The objective of the toolkit is to assist tribes to reduce the number of fatal and serious crashes, and provides flexibility for the tribes to utilize the methodology compatible with the onsite data, preferences of the tribes, and other factors to meet demands. The methodology described was successfully implemented on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe, and the Yankton Sioux Tribe and showed great success in identifying high-crash locations.

We Come for Good

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Tribal Sovereignty ◽  
Everglades Restoration ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Tribal Government

Indigenous communities are today active participants and players in the identification, management, research, interpretation, and preservation of their heritage. The development of the Seminole Tribe of Florida Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) is explored as a case study in the generation of tribal capacity to struggle with the huge number of heritage management questions that challenge native stakeholders. Operating from the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, the THPO project is a function of Tribal sovereignty. On-reservation, Tribal archaeologists work within Tribal and federal laws while attempting to redefine archaeology as a community-oriented exercise that empowers indigenous heritage management and relevancy for new generations of Tribal members. Off-reservation, the THPO must engage with federal and state entities across ancestral, aboriginal, and ceded lands that today compose more than nine modern states. This engagement is international in scope when NAGPRA is considered. In South Florida the Tribe is uniquely situated at the center of Everglades Restoration, attempting to insert culture into a dialogue thus far dominated by biologists. The resultant chapters provide a unique perspective that demystifies and demonstrates the diversity of mission lead objectives that characterize the THPO within Tribal government in the twenty-first century.

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