Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities.
Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript.
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Policy report explores expanding role of Tribal Colleges and Universities serving local communities in five areas: pre-school, elementary and secondary education, health and nutrition, faculty role models, agriculture and natural resource management and preservation of culture and language.
The Northern Review, no. 23, Special Issue: [Northern Communities and the State], Summer, 2001, pp. 164-179
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Discusses four oil-and-gas development projects in the North Slope Borough and relationships between government, Native governments, and Native communities.
Focuses on four areas: strengthening Tribal control; investing in cultural and language revitalization; hiring Native American staff and administrators, and promoting interagency coordination.
Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170
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Looks at how Sol Tax incorporated action anthropology, through conventional tactics, into his goals of challenging the United States government policies and also challenged assimilationist ideals found in both science and politics.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Racism, 2001, pp. 16-23
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Reports on the historical United States government policy towards Native Americans over the past 200 years.
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Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-40
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Comments about the on going process of tribal government development in the Navajo Nation.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 70, no. 1, February 2001, p. 147
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Book review of: To Show Heart... by George Pierre Castile. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1998. Includes analysis of self-determination within President Nixon's decentralizing social programs.