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The Last of the Five Tribes

E-Books
Author/Creator
Grant Foreman
Overland Monthly, vol. 49, pp. 196-198
Description
Three page article digitized by the University of Virginia Library in 1996.
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Michigan Indian Treaties and the Asian Carp

Alternate Title
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2010-05
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Lillie
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Comments on the risk to Native American treaty rights if Asian carp enter the Great Lakes and wipe out existing fish stocks.
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Michigan's Emerging Tribal Economies: A Presentation to the Michigan House of Representatives

Alternate Title
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2007-07
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jake J. Allen
Hannah Bobee
Kathryn E. Fort
Bryan Newland
Wenona T. Singel
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Looks at tribal sovereignty, the United States constitution, treaties and more.
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Minnesota Chippewa: Woodland Treaties To Tribal Bingo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
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Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gregory Gagnon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 166-170
Description
Book review of: Mni Sota Makoce by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White. Review located by scrolling to page 166.
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Native Americans and the Civil War

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arrell Morgan Gibson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn, 1985, pp. 385-410
Description
Examines the American Indigenous population's direct and indirect involvement in the US Civil War and its aftermath. The Confederate army courted Indigenous groups due to their tactical location and as a source for more troops.
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Native Americans and the Law: The Example of the Navajo

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hana Hermanová
Description
Provides basic information about the structure and system of law of Native Americans and questions if the Navajo have been able to customize the Anglo-American legal system to comply with the traditional Navajo life pattern. Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2013.
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Native Settlements and Native Rights. A Comparison of the Alaska Native Settlement, the James Bay Indian/Inuit Settlement, and the Western Canadian Inuit Settlement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J.S. Frideres
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 59-89
Description
Three 1970s agreements between Indigenous peoples and governments are compared: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement of 1971, the James Bay Settlement (1975) and the Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE) Agreement-in-Principle (1978).
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Ojibwe Treaty Rights

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
Description

Focuses on off-reservation treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in treaty-ceded lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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Once and Future Diplomacy: The Necessity of Treaty Relations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Bauerkemper
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, Summer, 2016, pp. 1-10
Description
Argues on behalf of the restoration of the federal government's authority to enter into treaty relationships with Native American nations and that this is necessary for the integrity of United States federalism.
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The Paradox of Sovereignty: Contingencies of Meaning in American Indian Treaty Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caskey Russell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that treaties are a fourth-world text, both promoting and negating sovereignty. To gain in the courts means the American legal system is recognized and ultimately pronounces decisions that effect the reality of Native Americans.
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Present Aspects of the Indian Problem (July 1881)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carl Schurz
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 45-54
Description
Outlines federal policy beneficial to Native Americans. Originally published in North American Review, July 1881.
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Reflections on the Black Hills Claim

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 33-38
Description
Examines the problems involved in resolving the Black Hills land claim between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.
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Refugee Crisis

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Garrett Wilson
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 20-28
Description
Depicts U.S. Government policy betraying the Sioux people in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas W. Veltre
Jeffrey D. Anderson
David Reed Miller
Katherine Beaty Chiste
Sean M. Rafferty
Carol Miller
Caskey Russell
Thomas W. Cowger
Hugh Shewell
Alfred Young Man
Michael A. Glassow
Karen J. Travers
Stephen Warren
Ken Coates
et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
Description
Book reviews of: An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson. The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
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The Role of Native American Dissatisfaction in Their Involvement in the Civil War

Alternate Title
Research Center Working Paper Series ; no. 16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Courtney Steele
Description
"This paper focuses on Native American agency and their desire to attain the political and legal rights that would give them power to enforce treaty provisions, placing Native Americans at the center of the decision-making".
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