Author: Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : By-laws
Languages : en
Pages : 9

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher: LLMC
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Verne Dusenberry
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130255
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Get Book Here

Book Description
The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the Cree Indians provide an example of how a people transplanted and persecuted throughout their history can maintain and develop a tribal identity and unity through the continuance of their religious values. As the adopted son of Mose Michelle, a hereditary Pend O’Reille chief, Verne Dusenberry moved easily within Indian circles as an accepted participant-observer in many religious ceremonies. His ethnographic study provides detailed descriptions of ceremonies - the Shaking Tent, Ghost Dance, and Sun Dance - which are seldom accurately described elsewhere.

Author: Kirsty Gover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199587094
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Get Book Here

Book Description
Recognized tribes are increasingly prominent players in settler state governance, but in the wide-ranging debates about tribal self-governance, little has been said about tribal self-constitution. Who are the members of tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are now obliged to adopt written constitutions as a condition of recognition, and to specify the criteria used to select members. Tribal Constitutionalism presents findings from a comparative study of nearly eight hundred current and historic tribal constitutions, most of which are not in the public domain. Kirsty Gover examines the strategies adopted by tribes and states to deal with the new legal distinction between indigenous people (defined by settler governments) and tribal members (defined by tribal governments). She highlights the important fact that the two categories are imperfectly aligned. Many indigenous persons are not tribal members, and some tribal members are not legally indigenous. Should legal indigenous status be limited to persons enrolled in recognized tribes? What is to be done about the large and growing proportion of indigenous peoples who are not enrolled in a tribe, and do not live near their tribal territories? This book approaches these complex questions head-on. Using tribal membership criteria as a starting point, this book provides a critical analysis of current political and sociolegal theories of tribalism and indigeneity, and draws on legal doctrine, policy, demographic data and tribal practice to provide a comparative evaluation of tribal membership governance in the western settler states.

Author: John Canfield Ewers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cree Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1828

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: James J Lopach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000009688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Get Book Here

Book Description
There has been surprisingly little writing about the condition of contemporary tribal government. Library shelves are filled with works on other American and foreign governments, but an inquirer must leam about tribal government incidentally and in piecemeal fashion. This state of scholarship is regrettable because of the importance of the modem I

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 812

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 162349656X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Get Book Here

Book Description
Winner, 2019 Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction Book, sponsored by Western Writers of America In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and react differently to Native identity and offers new insights into what it has meant to be “indigenous” or an “immigrant.” Rensink’s findings counter a prevailing theme in histories of the American West—namely, that the East was the center that dictated policy to the western periphery. On the contrary, Rensink employs experiences of the Yaquis, Crees, and Chippewas to depict Arizona and Montana as an active and mercurial blend of local political, economic, and social interests pushing back against and even reshaping broader federal policy. Rensink argues that as immediate forces in the borderlands molded the formation of federal policy, these Native groups moved from being categorized as political refugees to being cast as illegal immigrants, subject to deportation or segregation; in both cases, this legal transition was turbulent. Despite continued staunch opposition, Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis gained legal and permanent settlements in the United States and successfully broke free of imposed transnational identities. Accompanying the thought-provoking text, a vast guide to archival sources across states, provinces, and countries is included to aid future scholarship. Native but Foreign is an essential work for scholars of immigration, indigenous peoples, and borderlands studies.