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Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations
Wilkinson, Charles
W. W. Norton May 8, 2006
8vo softcover 544pp very good. Reservations, long mired in poverty and oppression, have become rallying points for Native American society, according to this stirring history of the tribal sovereignty movement. Energized by the Civil Rights movement's gains and pressing their claims under long-dormant treaties, Indian tribes have taken control of reservation government from an autocratic Bureau of Indian Affairs, regained lost lands, asserted hunting and fishing rights, jump-started reservation economic development and revived Indian languages and culture. Wilkinson (American Indians, Time, and the Law; etc.), formerly an attorney for the Native American Rights Fund and now a law professor at the University of Colorado, ranges widely over the sovereignty movement, emphasizing the court cases--like the Pacific Northwest salmon controversies and the wrangles over reservation gambling--that have expanded tribal rights. His sympathetic treatment extols the movement's success in redressing historic injustices, but sometimes skates too easily over difficulties in squaring ethnically based sovereignty with principles of democracy and equal citizenship. (He cites one reservation on which 50 Indians controlled a tribal government claiming jurisdiction over 3,000 non-Indian residents.) And he sometimes defends Native American prerogatives by invoking a cultural uniqueness--Indians' spiritual connection to the land, for example, may entitle them to
Price: $16.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 45913 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Ehanamani: Walks Among
Ross, A. C.
ISBN: 0962197726
Denver Wiconi Waste 2000
8vo softcover 232pp, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep. The Santee Dakota author of Mitakuye Oyasin shares a "sundance experience"--one that led him to discover that the Federal Reserve System is controlled by private bankers. With updated and additional information, this book tells how the rich escape paying their share of taxes, how American Indian poverty is perpetuated by the Fed, and how we can learn to rid ourselves of the national debt.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 33802 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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