Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages, and Cultures of 172 Western American Indian Tribes

RAIN ◽  
1980 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
P.J.P. ◽  
Joseph G. Jorgensen
Ethnohistory ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
Raymond I. Orr ◽  
Yancey A. Orr

Abstract American Indian tribal power has typically expanded since the 1960s. During this period, often referred to as the Self-Determination Era, tribes have regained much of their earlier political centrality. One rarely addressed limitation during this period is the inability of tribal polities to break into smaller units while maintaining recognition as legitimate. This essay identifies the inability of tribes to exercise what the authors call compositional flexibility and fracture to form new polities discrete of the previous tribe. The authors argue the absence of compositional flexibility shapes tribal politics and is at odds with many forms of traditional governance systems.


Elements ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Mooney

Federalism has played an important role in the explosion of legalized gambling in the United States in the last two decades. Indian gaming, in particular, has challenged state and national governments to come to terms with the place of American Indian tribes within the federalist system and organize a meaningful framework for the expansion of gaming on tribal lands. Now largely controlled by a federal statutory framework, Indian gaming has left states in a subordinate position in negotiating the establisment of major casino enterprises within their own borders. Confusion in states' rights during negotiations has further weakened their bargaining position, leading to extensive tribal casino development. The cooperation between states and tribes and states and casino corporations have facilitated casino proliferation throughout the United States, a trend that appears destined to contiue until the market is fully saturated.


1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stoffle ◽  
Michael Evans

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) became law on November 16, 1990. The law addresses the rights of lineal descendants and members of American Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian groups with respect to human remains and cultural items with which they are affiliated. NAGPRA is concerned with the human remains of Native American ancestors, material goods still associated with these bodies, material goods once associated with these bodies but now separated, objects of importance to ongoing religious practice, and objects of cultural patrimony. NAGPRA sets into motion a process of identification, consultation, and recommendation about these ancestors or ancestral materials.


2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Libby ◽  
Heather D. Orton ◽  
Janette Beals ◽  
Dedra Buchwald ◽  
Spero M. Manson

Medical Care ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Fortney ◽  
Carol E. Kaufman ◽  
David E. Pollio ◽  
Janette Beals ◽  
Carrie Edlund ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Kakol ◽  
Dona Upson ◽  
Akshay Sood

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-170
Author(s):  
Stanisław Czerniak ◽  

The author reviews the main elements of Richard Münch’s academic capitalism theory. By introducing categories like “audit university” or “entrepreneurial university,” the German sociologist critically sets today’s academic management model against the earlier, modern-era conception of academic work as an “exchange of gifts.” In the sociological and psychological sense, he sees the latter’s roots in traditional social lore, for instance the potlatch ceremonies celebrated by some North-American Indian tribes and described by Marcel Mauss. Münch shows the similarities between the old, “gift exchanging” model and the contemporary one with its focus on the psycho-social fundamentals of scientific praxis, and from this gradually derives the academic capitalism conception. He concludes with the critical claim that science possesses its own, inalienable axiological autonomy and anthropological dimension, which degenerate as capitalism proceeds to “colonise” science by means of state authority and money (here Münch mentions Jürgen Habermas and his philosophical argumentation).The author also offers a somewhat broader view of Münch’s analyses in the context of his own reflections on the problem.


1996 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 77

A new summer camp for high school seniors at Oklahoma State University (OSU) has brought together American Indian students from several states to study enrichment topics in mathematics. Twenty-six high school seniors from fourteen American Indian tribes participated in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) camp at Oklahoma State University during summer 1994. The students came from Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, California, Arkansas, North Carolina, Arizona, Montana, Tennessee, and Alaska. The tribes represented included Arapahoe, Chippewa, Choctaw, Tliogit, Pueblo, Cheyenne, Potawatomi, Sioux, Navajo, Wichita, Lumbee, and Hoopa.


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