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Claiming Turtle Mountain's constitution : the history, legacy, and future of a tribal nation's founding documents / Keith Richotte Jr.
"In this work, Keith Richotte explores Native American tribal constitutional history in order to, as he argues, decenter the U.S. federal actors, laws, and policies from the study of tribal constitutionalism and instead refocus attention back onto tribal members, underlining their agency and importance. Richotte uses the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians as a case study and follows the tribe's history in forming its own 1932 constitution, detailing every step and decision taken, good and bad, in its creation. He shows that the tribe's dominant political goal was pursuing a claim against the federal government for the damages it suffered during the establishment of its reservation and the negotiations for a treaty. However, political forces in and outside the tribe pushed the decision to a compromise, and the tribe adopted a constitution that limited their own authority while keeping open the possibility of later claims against the U.S. Federal government. Importantly, all of this took place before the Indian Reorganization Act - the piece of federal legislation most associated with modern tribal constitutionalism - became law, making Turtle Mountain's path to its own constitution a story of tribal agency, one that disrupts the commonly held idea that IRA lies at the epicenter of tribal constitutionalism"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781469634500
- ISBN: 1469634503
- ISBN: 9781469634517
- ISBN: 1469634511
- Physical Description: xii, 289 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- Green Setting Feather's world -- Little Shell II's world -- The reservation -- The Ten-Cent Treaty -- The aftermath -- The claim -- The Constitution -- Conclusion.
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- Subject:
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota > Politics and government.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota > History.
Indians of North America > Politics and government.
Indians of North America > Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Ojibwa
Politik
Verrechtlichung
Verfassunggebung
North Dakota - Genre:
- History.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 99 .C6 T77 R54 2017 | 290189 | Stacks | Available | - |