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Barsh, Russel Lawrence – American Indian Journal, 1980
While the criminal reform bill, S.1722m, has great potential for straightening out the jurisdictional morass on Indian reservations, it is evading the more controversial issues. After describing past difficulties in determining criminal jurisdiction on tribal lands, this article discusses needed reforms and what is missing in the new law.…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Criminal Law, Federal Indian Relationship
Peer reviewedBarsh, Russel Lawrence – Great Plains Quarterly, 1993
With the backing of America's wealthy citizenry, Joseph Dixon organized the 1913 Expedition of Citizenship in an effort to advance the acculturation of American Indians. Dixon's efforts were a melodramatic charade in which the Indians gained nothing but patriotic rituals, still practiced at tribal meetings and powwows. Too late, Dixon realized the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, Citizenship
