American Indian Tribal Governments

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Anne Merline McCulloch ◽  
Sharon O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Tribal Governments

American Indian Tribal Governments.

1991 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1439
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Philip ◽  
Sharon O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Tribal Governments

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.

Geographic Information Networks in American Indian Governments and Communities

2013 ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Mark H. Palmer ◽  
Jack Hanney
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
North American ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Tribal Governments

This article describes advantages and disadvantages of federal government centralized geographic information networks and decentralized peer-to-peer geographic information networks as they pertain to North American Indian tribal governments and communities. Geographic information systems (GIS) are used by indigenous groups for natural resource management, land claims, water rights, and cultural revitalization activities on a global-scale. North American groups use GIS for the same reasons, but questions regarding culturally appropriate GIS, cross-cultural understandings of geographic knowledge, and cultural assimilation through Western digital technologies have been raised by scholars. Two network models are germane to American Indian government operations and community organizations. The first is a prescriptive top-down network emanating from federal government agencies. Federal agencies are responsible for the diffusion of nationwide GIS programs throughout indigenous communities in the United States. A second, potentially more inclusive model is a decentralized peer-to-peer network in which all nodes are responsible for the success of the network.

scholarly journals Why Don’t More American Indians Become Engineers in South Dakota?

2015 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Joanita M Kant ◽  
Wiyaka His Horse Is Thunder ◽  
Suzette R. Burckhard ◽  
Richard T. Meyers
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
College Age ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
K 12

American Indians are among the most under-represented groups in the engineering profession in the United States. With increasing interest in diversity, educators and engineers seek to understand why. Often overlooked is simply asking enrolled tribal members of prime college age, “Why don’t more American Indians become engineers?” and “What would it take to attract more?” In this study, we asked these questions and invited commentary about what is needed to gain more engineers from the perspectives of enrolled tribal members from South Dakota, with some of the most poverty-stricken reservations in the nation. Overall, results indicated that the effects of poverty and the resulting survival mentality among American Indians divert attention from what are understood to be privileged pursuits such as engineering education. The study’s findings indicated American Indian interviewees perceived the need for consistent attention to the following issues: 1) amelioration of poverty; 2) better understanding of what engineering is and its tribal relevancy; 3) exposure to engineering with an American Indian cultural emphasis in K-12 schools; 4) presence of role-model engineers in their daily lives; 5) encouragement and support from their peers, families, teachers, Elders, and tribal governments to value science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, particularly engineering fields; and (6) the embedded perceptions of math as a barrier to engineering studies.

American Indian and Alaska Native Data in Federal Data Collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Carlann Unger ◽  
Benjamin Simon ◽  
Malka Pattison
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Data Gaps ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Federal Data

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes need access to quality data and information to make informed decisions concerning their communities, economic development, land and resource management, and other sovereign governance decisions. Federal agencies also need access to quality data to ensure that they are delivering effective services to AI/AN tribes to meet tribal needs and deliver on federal responsibilities. However, various statistical and collection issues often negatively affect the quality and availability of federally collected AI/AN data. As a preliminary step to identifying gaps and improving the quality and accuracy of AI/AN data in federal datasets, this article provides an inventory and preliminary analysis of current AI/AN in federal data collections. This inventory identifies 448 unique data collections from twenty-one federal agencies. These datasets were identified in 2016. One hundred and ninety-four (43.3%) of these datasets are publicly available, and seventy-nine of the publicly available datasets include data at the tribal or reservation level. An analysis of tribal/reservation level datasets by agency show that there are data gaps at the reservation/tribal level on businesses, the financial sector, tribal governments, labor markets, and education.

Expertise and Scale of Conflict: Governments as Advocates in American Indian Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA E. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Political Expertise ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Native American Tribes

How do American Indian tribal governments relate to nearby local governments? Do insights gleaned from these cases illuminate the constraints and opportunities that marginalized groups face within any system of federalism? What circumstances of marginalized governments help or hinder their effectiveness? Although some Native American tribes have transformed their fortunes with highly profitable casinos, most continue to face stark disadvantages. Some tribal governments, despite limited opportunities prevail locally by cultivating policy and political expertise. This analysis demonstrates that such expertise can be developed, even when resources are scarce.

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