Contemporary Native American political issues

Summary: Moving into the 21st century, Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities remain culturally vibrant and politically innovative as they continue to struggle for survival on many fronts. Editor Troy R. Johnson has assembled a volume of top scholarship from which emerge the complexity and diversity of Native American political life. Each topical section is introduced by the editor's own commentaries, which provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. These are followed by informative and critical studies, many drawn from the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, which offer grounded experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native American political settings.

Record details

ISBN: 0761990607 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780761990604 (cloth)
ISBN: 0761990615 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780761990611 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
323 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Walnut Creek [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The tragedy and the travesty: the subversion of indigenous sovereignty in North America / Ward Churchill. -- The past as legacy and project: postcolonial criticism in the perspective of indigenous historicism / Arif Dirlik. -- Recent United Nations initiatives concerning the rights of indigenous peoples / Stephen V. Quesenberry. -- Claiming memory in British Columbia aboriginal rights and the state / Fae L. Korsmo. -- Traditional American Indian economic policy / Ronald L. Trosper. -- Indian Gaming: Financial and regulatory issues / Gary C. Anders. -- The contextual nature of American Indian criminality / Donald E. Green. -- Public Law 280 and the problem of 'Lawlessness' in California Indian country / Carole Goldberg. -- Nebraska's landmark repatriation law: a study of cross-cultural conflict and resolution / Robert M. Peregoy. -- Acknowledging the repatriation claims of unacknowledged California tribes / Carole Goldberg. -- American Indian activism and transformation lessons from Alcatraz / Troy Johnson, Duane Champagne, and Joane Nagel.