• United States brought action against states on behalf of Indian tribes to define treaty fishing rights. (narf.org)
  • It endangers our tribal sovereignty - our authority to make decisions for our tribes and our members. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Join us for a memorable evening as Stephen Pevar discusses the genesis of his benchmark book, The Rights of Indian Tribes . (narf.org)
  • The Rights of Indians and Tribes , first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. (narf.org)
  • Incorporating a user-friendly question-and-answer format, The Rights of Indians and Tribes addresses the most significant legal issues facing Indians and Indian tribes today, including tribal sovereignty, the federal trust responsibility, the regulation of non-Indians on reservations, Indian treaties, the Indian Civil Rights Act, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Indian Child Welfare Act. (narf.org)
  • Nothing is a more accessible, comprehensive, and realistic treatment of modern day tribal sovereignty than The Rights of Indians and Tribes. (narf.org)
  • Once in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), the Five Civilized Tribes worked to rebuild their economies. (britannica.com)
  • During Reconstruction (1865-77), conflicts in the West resulted in the movement of a large number of displaced Plains tribes and others from their traditional homelands to Indian Territory. (britannica.com)
  • By the 1890s, continued Euro-American land hunger had resulted in allotment , a federal policy under which land held in common by tribes was divided into parcels and dispersed. (britannica.com)
  • The administration of schools and other institutions formerly managed by the tribes of Indian Territory also devolved to the United States. (britannica.com)
  • These and other pressures on traditional culture were clear abrogations of tribal sovereignty , but tribes from the Southeast culture area saw just as clearly that fighting them head-on would prove unproductive. (britannica.com)
  • Federally recognized tribes in the state are the Spirit Lake Tribe (formerly the Devil's Lake Sioux), the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. (minoritynurse.com)
  • There are more than 560 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes located throughout the United States. (minoritynurse.com)
  • for Indian tribes throughout the United States. (minoritynurse.com)
  • During the 1970s, landmark legislation such as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act gave tribes the option of contracting with IHS to operate and manage their health care services themselves, rather than receiving services directly from the agency. (minoritynurse.com)
  • The court's eventual decision could chip away at the sovereignty of Native American tribes. (keranews.org)
  • If the Supreme Court agrees with the Brackeens, it will go against hundreds of years of precedent of the federal government dealing with tribes as sovereign nations, said Dan Lewerenz , a law professor at the University of North Dakota, an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund and a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. (keranews.org)
  • 1 This is self-government by Indian tribes as delineated by court cases Huge credit is due to the warriors for tribal sovereignty. (perc.org)
  • The hearing examined how federal control of Indian lands often prevents tribes from capitalizing on their natural resources - a policy based on an outdated notion that tribes are incapable of managing their lands themselves. (perc.org)
  • For instance, tribes and individual Indians generally cannot own their land. (perc.org)
  • Not surprisingly, these regulatory barriers raise the cost of doing business with tribes or individual Indians. (perc.org)
  • For instance, even though the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota are located at the center of the shale oil and gas boom, most tribal members have missed out on the economic growth experienced beyond its borders. (perc.org)
  • Much more should be done to give tribes the same rights and freedoms that other Americans have. (perc.org)
  • The Native American Energy Act , passed by the House last year, would grant tribes more authority over energy development decisions in Indian Country. (perc.org)
  • It's time to stop paying lip service to tribal sovereignty and start giving tribes the same freedom and dignity as other Americans. (perc.org)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • Climate Ready Tribes Initiative at the National Indian Health Board, in Washington, D.C. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Indian Health Board created the Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative to support these efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • We describe how two tribes—the Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community—implemented their Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative projects, and we provide recommendations for making climate and health policy more effective for tribes. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1971 the late Alvin Josephy, along with a host of leading thinkers, declared a new paradigm for American Indians: self-determination. (perc.org)
  • As a concept, tribal self-determination has been elevated to the status of something called "tribal sovereignty. (perc.org)
  • Although the government pays lip service to tribal sovereignty and self-determination, Native Americans still lack the same freedoms as other Americans. (perc.org)
  • Native Americans and Alaskan Natives comprise about 6% of North Dakota's population, according the U.S. Census Bureau, compared to less than 2% of the U.S. population as a whole. (minoritynurse.com)
  • One excuse the government used to take Native children away was poverty, said Angelique EagleWoman, director of the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and a citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. (keranews.org)
  • American Indians and Alaska Natives have the lowest life expectancy of any US ethnic group, and in some communities health disparities are growing. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2001, Smith submitted his application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs ("BIA") for approval to gift transfer one-third of his 3/38 undivided interest to Miami Tribe. (narf.org)
  • State and private agencies were removing a staggering number of Native children from their homes: as many as 25% to 35% of all Native children, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs . (keranews.org)
  • A 2015 report by the Government Accountability Office found that poor management and bureaucratic delays by the Bureau of Indian Affairs hinders energy development on tribal lands, resulting in "missed development opportunities, lost revenue, and jeopardized viability of projects. (perc.org)
  • When justices take up Haaland v. Brackeen , they'll be asked to consider the fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). (keranews.org)
  • Any change to the interpretation or implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act would signal a return to the genocidal policies of the United States," EagleWoman said. (keranews.org)
  • If we didn't have an Indian Child Welfare Act, we probably would continue to see these large, large numbers being removed," Simmons said. (keranews.org)
  • November is National Native American Heritage Month , a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, values, and histories of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States of America. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Indigenous peoples came with the land called America. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The showcase provides a unique form for engagement with Native filmmakers from indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • Although the IHS as we now know it was established in 1955, earlier efforts to provide some type of federally funded health care for Native people date back to the 19th century. (minoritynurse.com)
  • They included groups that had escaped removal-Cherokee communities in North Carolina and Seminole groups in Florida-as well as a tribelet of Choctaw that had traveled only as far as the state of Mississippi during removal. (britannica.com)
  • Last year the IHS received a $500 million allocation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to help pay for new health care facilities, health information technology, medical equipment and other improvements in the delivery of health care to AI/AN communities. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Today the Indian Health Service provides a comprehensive system of health care services to AI/AN people living on or near tribal reservations, in rural communities and in urban settings. (minoritynurse.com)
  • A case before the Supreme Court will examine a law designed to keep Native children in their families and communities in case they are placed in the child welfare system. (keranews.org)
  • ICWA is fundamental to making sure Native children can grow up in Native communities, EagleWoman said. (keranews.org)
  • Our objective was to describe STI trends in the cir- based participatory research is an appropriate approach to cumpolar Arctic, focusing on the North American conti- improve sexual health in Arctic communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Type 2 diabetes was probably uncommon in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations before the 1940s. (cdc.gov)
  • The Indian Health Service, a federally funded agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary health care provider and advocate for approximately 1.9 million of the nation's 3.3 million American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. (minoritynurse.com)
  • The thing that is distinct about working for the Indian Health Service, besides the fact that it is a federal agency with a direct clinical service delivery mission, is the fact that the American Indian/Alaska Native people still have much of their [traditional] culture intact," says Carolyn Aoyama, CNM, RN, MPH, the agency's senior consultant for women's health. (minoritynurse.com)
  • This exhibition highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation's identity since before the country began. (indianpueblo.org)
  • It is only a circling back to the ancient and most crucial of Indian values- an understanding that the power of the tribal community is founded upon the collective energy of strong, self-suffcient, selfinitiating, entrepreneurial, independent, healthful, and therefore powerful, individual persons. (perc.org)
  • Swinomish Community Health Program in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, in Fidalgo Island, Washington. (cdc.gov)
  • We should think of these human imperatives as matters of Indian sovereignty as distinct from tribal sovereignty. (perc.org)
  • Indian sovereignty-the autonomy of the Indian person- means re-equipping Indian people with the dignity of self-sufï¬ ciency, the right not to depend upon the white man, the government, or even the tribe. (perc.org)
  • Topics from the Origins of Native American Military Service, various conflicts from the Civil War to the Middle East, Code Talkers, Native women and WWII, and the National Native American Veterans Memorial. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case with origins in North Texas. (keranews.org)
  • This year's showcase focuses on Native people boldly asserting themselves through language, healing, building community, and a continued relationship with the land. (indianpueblo.org)
  • By Tony Connor, Director of Marketing, Public Interest Registry As a part of our reoccurring #ORGinAction series - which spotlights organisations who trust the .org domain to support their communication efforts - we are happy to introduce you to the Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA) who was also this year's #ORGinAction social contest winner! (sctdv.net)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • But the paradigm has an obvious shortcoming: It lacks consideration for the role of the Indian citizen, the individual, the person. (perc.org)
  • Congress passed ICWA in 1978 as a response to the child welfare system's overt discrimination against Native families. (keranews.org)
  • Indians have waited six years to receive title search reports that other Americans can get in a few days. (perc.org)
  • The IHS operates 31 hospitals, 63 health centers, 30 health stations and 34 urban Indian health projects. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Through both federally operated and tribally contracted health programs, the Indian Health Service's goal is to ensure that all AI/AN people throughout the U.S. can receive health care that is accessible, comprehensive and-most importantly-culturally acceptable. (minoritynurse.com)
  • WASHINGTON - As a threat to tribal sovereignty, the Trump administration is attempting to strip American Indians and Alaska Natives from health care. (sctdv.net)
  • Fishing -- Off Indian reservations -- Washington (State). (narf.org)
  • This summer, the University of North Dakota College of Nursing conducted three four-day tours across North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, visiting American Indian reservations in an effort to recruit potential nursing students. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Sponsored by the University's Recruitment and Retention of American Indians into Nursing Program (RAIN), the tours gave students on the reservations a glimpse at the nursing program and all it has to offer, says program coordinator Deb Wilson. (minoritynurse.com)
  • On Indian lands, companies must go through 49 steps and at least four federal agencies just to acquire a permit for energy development, compared to as few as four steps for projects not on reservations. (perc.org)
  • How is it that Indians can be so present and so absent in American life? (indianpueblo.org)
  • American life. (lu.se)
  • The point to be projected from here forward is that contemporary American Indian sovereignty depends upon a successful rekindling of that entrepreneurial spirit. (perc.org)
  • 20 years were 2.1 times as likely to have diabetes diagnosed compared with non-Hispanic white adults (15.9% versus 7.6% respectively) ( 5 ).The age-adjusted rate of diagnosed diabetes among AI/AN adults varied by region from 6.0% among Alaska Natives to 24.1% among American Indians in southern Arizona ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The announcement gave structure and shape to the policy evolution that has occupied the Indian debate for the ensuing thirty-ï¬ ve years. (perc.org)
  • Mr. Pevar worked for Legal Services on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation from 1971-1974, and taught Federal Indian Law at the University of Denver School of Law from 1983-1999. (narf.org)
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (lu.se)
  • Non-Native Hawai'ian applicant brought suit against private high schools under § 1981, challenging schools' policy of giving preference to students of Native Hawai'ian ancestry. (narf.org)
  • The Court of Appeals, Graber, Circuit Judge, held that schools' policy of giving preference to students of Native Hawai'ian ancestry did not violate § 1981. (narf.org)
  • In part, the law gives Native families preference when fostering or adopting Native children. (keranews.org)
  • American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) serve at a higher rate and have a higher concentration of female service members than all other service members. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Gallery of images over two centuries related to Native Americans and their military service. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Then consider a career with the Indian Health Service (IHS). (minoritynurse.com)
  • These are particularly exciting times for nurses to pursue careers in the Indian Health Service. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Even with tribal sovereignty, we continue to experience devastating personal and family-level despair. (perc.org)
  • Turning pottery designs into computer artwork By Katherine Saltzstein Native Sun News Today New Mexico Correspondent nativesunnews.today ALBUQUERQUE - Acoma artist Jon Juanico turns Acoma pottery designs into computer-aided artwork. (sctdv.net)
  • Even the most basic land-use decisions in Indian Country still require the review and approval of Washington bureaucrats. (perc.org)
  • known as freedmen, this population experienced various phases of acceptance and rejection from others in the Native American community , and their status remained controversial in the early 21st century. (britannica.com)
  • Sovereignty -- Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona. (narf.org)
  • It explains the complex subject of federal Indian law in a clear and concise way. (narf.org)
  • could be swing vote in 32 congressional races Mark Trahant Indian Country Today KANSAS CITY - Native Americans are underrepresented in nearly every state and in the federal offices, according to a new analysis by Amber Ebarb of the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center. (sctdv.net)
  • As a result, nearly every aspect of Indian land use is controlled by federal agencies. (perc.org)
  • Unfortunately, the Obama administration opposes the bill , claiming that it undermines federal oversight of Indian lands, and the president has threatened to veto it if it passes. (perc.org)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • alcohol-related mortality rates are triple the national average (Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development 2004). (perc.org)
  • This was my introduction to Indian law and still frames much of my thinking on the future of Indian law and policy. (narf.org)
  • Linda Yardley from Taos Pueblo had one answer at a field hearing of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition Friday. (sctdv.net)
  • He has litigated numerous Indian rights cases and has lectured extensively on the subject. (narf.org)
  • Companies would rather drill on nearby private lands than try to cut through all of the red tape on Indian Country. (perc.org)
  • American history begins on the East Coast and pushes the Indians west, to extinction. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • Every Indian should read this book. (narf.org)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • But so is the autonomy of the individual Indian. (perc.org)
  • With allotment, these policies paved the way for Euro-American settlement of the territory and thus for statehood. (britannica.com)
  • The reason American Indians were in poverty was because of U.S. government policies," EagleWoman said. (keranews.org)
  • The child welfare system is not "first come, first serve," said David Simmons, the director of government affairs and advocacy for the National Indian Child Welfare Association . (keranews.org)
  • In another, it took 18 months for the government to review a single proposal to develop wind energy on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, causing the deal with the developer and the local utility to fall through. (perc.org)
  • STI intervention and prevention strategies have been of sexually transmitted infections for Arctic and sub-Arctic developed primarily for urban and suburban environments regions of North America. (cdc.gov)
  • For continuity, in this thesis the term Native American will be used. (lu.se)
  • Here's a question with a seemingly simple answer: Shouldn't Native Americans have the same rights to develop their land, if they choose to do so, as other Americans? (perc.org)
  • Yet images and names of Indians are everywhere. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wintered in 1804-05 among the Mandans and the Hidatsas in what is today North Dakota, they also traded. (perc.org)
  • The National hearings, document challenges and voter suppression stories of #NativeVote18 PUEBLO OF ISLETA- Why should Native Americans vote? (sctdv.net)
  • The Brackeens are a non-Native Fort Worth-area couple who adopted one boy with Navajo and Cherokee parents, and are trying to adopt his sister, according to court documents. (keranews.org)
  • The practice echoed assimilation practices like moving Native children to boarding schools . (keranews.org)
  • President Joe Biden proclaims November 2021 as National Native American Heritage Month and Friday, November 26, 2021 as Native American Heritage Day. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Ultimately, Lewis and Clark reported to President Thomas Jefferson that native inhabitants throughout the Louisiana Territory were a thoroughly independent, businesslike lot-sharp entrepreneurs and shrewd dealers. (perc.org)