Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perpectives on American Indian Rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Richard L. Clow ◽  
John R. Wunder
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indian ◽  
The Law ◽  
Indian Rights

A “Real” American Indian

Contexts ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. Huyser
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Self Image

Kimberly R. Huyser considers the power of stereotypes and self-image as she participates in a project to create modern images of Native Americans.

To Bury the Ancestors: A View of Nagpra

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stoffle ◽  
Michael Evans
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Cultural Patrimony ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Indian Tribes ◽  
The Law

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.

Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology and the Law:Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology and the Law.

1998 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 1022-1024
Author(s):  
Pamela Kendall Stone ◽  
Ventura R. Perez ◽  
Debra Martin
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
The Law

Borderland

Quarters ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 127-164
Author(s):  
John Gilbert McCurdy
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
North American ◽  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
The North ◽  
The Law ◽  
British Colonies

This chapter unearths quartering on the North American borderland where colonists and Native Americans struggled to live alongside one another, especially in the backcountry between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. The Quartering Act included provisions to extend the law to places that were not organized British colonies, although this enforcement largely failed. Colonists and speculators advocated opening the backcountry to colonization as a means of paying for quartering troops, while Indian superintendents and British officers sought to leave the region to Native Americans. Ultimately, neither side prevailed; the borderland persisted and quartering in the backcountry remained an unsolved problem.

Bounding American Indian Businesses

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-112
Author(s):  
Courtney Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Land Scarcity ◽  
Eastern Band ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Indian Rights ◽  
Political Actions

Every Native Nation is a “border nation”— physically, economically, politically, and legally. As such, the volatile topic of these Native Nation boundaries is historically and contemporarily enmeshed with contestation and conflict, not only in the larger political actions of these states but also as it is felt in the daily lives of American Indian peoples. Boundaries of territory and citizenry in particular have always been crucial to the subject of American Indian rights. The delineations of these boundaries, then, have complications and consequences for the exercise of EBCI economic sovereignty as well as for the small- business owners that choose to operate there. These boundary formations are critical to understanding the contextual distinctiveness of federally recognized American Indian entrepreneurs through land rights, formation of citizenship requirements, and issues of representation (especially in relation to citizenship). This chapter looks specifically at the issues of land scarcity, trust land for Native Nations and their citizens, the cultural capital of this land in a tourism context, and the environmental impacts of economic development. Land scarcity may also cause citizens to leave the Qualla Boundary, resulting in some instances in brain drain, networking loss, and economic drain. The importance of citizenship, along with its complications, are illustrated through the efforts of Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians artists and their strategies to market their work.

Working On, Working For, and Working With American Indians

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Weibel-Orlando
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politically Active

The lyrics of the Curtis and Westerman song, dating from circa 1960 (printed in Vine Deloria's Custer Died for Your Sins) exemplify the then prevailing attitude of a number of politically active and vocal Native Americans toward anthropologists in general and, in particular, those of us who have "worked with" American Indians. The social distance between researcher and researched community as suggested by the lyrics' invective has approached, in some instances, the ultimate semantic contrast set, that is, the social distance that separates "us" from "our enemies." Their words suggest an Indian view of anthropologists as, at best, unrealistic Romanticists to, at worst, exploiters and intellectual imperialists. In no sense do the lyrics concede that anthropologists "do" anything of worth for their American Indian subjects.

American Indians Encounter the Bible

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Christopher Vecsey
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Indians ◽  
New World ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
The Bible ◽  
To Receive

Abstract This article explores how Native Americans have received the Bible. Over the centuries some Indians have been inspired by the Bible, and some have been repelled by its long-standing place in colonization. The Christian invaders in the New World carried the Bible in their minds. It served as their inspiration, their justification, and their frame of reference as they encountered Indigenous peoples. In effect, the Bible was the template for exploration, conquest, identification of selves and others. The Christian invaders brought along or produced physical Bibles, which served their catechetical purposes, and in time they began to translate the Bible—in whole and in part—into American Indian languages. Therefore this article illustrates that to the present day Native Americans continue to receive the Bible actively and variously, attempting to fit it to their unfolding cultural stories. Ultimately, it has not lost its potency, nor have they lost their power to consider it on their own terms.

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