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Acker, Thomas L.; Jones, Chian; Smith, Dean Howard – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2006
Energy in the form of electricity is a hot topic among tribes within the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP). For too many people, energy is too expensive, not reliable, or even nonexistent. For many tribal members, up to 20 or 30 percent of income is spent on energy, which is unbelievably high compared to nontribal people in the same area.…
Descriptors: Tribal Sovereignty, Tribes, Job Development, Integrity
Holm, Sharon – American Indian Quarterly, 2008
In Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel "Ceremony" the "primacy of the geographical" has often been interpreted as a particularly holistic and healing sense of place--what the critic Robert M. Nelson has characterized as the "spirit of place." This heightened awareness of the spiritual and redemptive power of the natural and the imaginative in…
Descriptors: Ceremonies, American Indians, American Indian Culture, Authors
Scott, Wilfred – Wassaja, The Indian Historian, 1980
Itemizes accomplishments of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes and discusses 1980 presidential campaign promises to Indians by Ronald Reagan and John Anderson. (AN)
Descriptors: American Indians, Energy, Natural Resources, Politics

Younker, Jason – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2005
A personal and tribal history outlining the steps that the Coquille took to strengthen the claim to tribal sovereignty through investment in tribal education, active participation in academic research, and the reestablishment of relationships through gift giving is presented. Coquille scholars initiated the tribe's most successful endeavors, the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Tribes, Research Projects, Cultural Maintenance
Smiley, Richard; Sather, Susan – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2009
In this comprehensive effort to study Indian education policies, the report categorizes the policies of five Northwest Region states based on 13 key policies identified in the literature and describes the legal methods used to adopt them, such as statutes, regulations, and executive orders. The study found that six of the key policies had been…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Advisory Committees
American Indian Journal, 1978
This article is a response from James Cain, Greene County (Ohio) Commissioner, concerning an August 1978 journal article on the adoption of an Indian position by the National Association of Counties ("NAC Adopts Indian Platform"). (Editor/RTS)
Descriptors: American Indians, Federal Government, Local Government, Power Structure
Brudevold, Daniel L.; And Others – American Indian Journal, 1982
To provide Tribal Councils and enterprises with fundamental guidelines to organize and administer enterprises as profit-seeking businesses, the paper is presented in four sections: differences in basic purposes (business vs. government); organizational considerations; fiscal management considerations; and guidelines for organizing and establishing…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, American Indians, Business, Money Management
Wassaja, The Indian Historian, 1980
Concerns long-time conflict among three groups of St. Regis Mohawks (one group accepts federal jurisdiction, one disclaims United States citizenship, and one tries to resolve conflicts of the first two) and the state of New York. (AN)
Descriptors: American Indians, Federal Aid, Role Conflict, States Powers

Hailstone, Max – Visible Language, 1993
Explores the founding document of present-day New Zealand, the "Treaty of Waitangi," in terms of the Maori chiefs' signatures and their significance in European and tribal custom. Notes that most of the signatures on the original treaty were approximately 5mm high and were subsumed by the attempted European spellings of the names of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Higher Education, Treaties
Joyner, C. C. – Indian Historian, 1978
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the evolution of the historical status of American Indians under international law, while recognizing the legal nature of Indian treaties, as well as their jurisdictional scope and binding character. (Author/RTS)
Descriptors: American Indians, Federal Government, History, International Law
Deloria, Sam – La Confluencia, 1978
At the most abstract level it can be asked whether tribes today have an international personality, whether they can be recognized internationally as sovereign entities. The answer can tell us whether the treaties signed between the tribes and the U.S. have an international status and if so, what sort of status that is. (AUTHOR/NQ)
Descriptors: American Indians, Definitions, Individual Power, Self Determination
La Confluencia, 1978
Descriptors: American Indians, Conflict, Debate, Government Role

Paul, Cletus Maanu – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1987
Outlines culturally based political and legal strategies used by the indigenous peoples of New Zealand to retain or regain control of fisheries, forests, and land. Emphasizes the need to integrate tribal culture and history into the general education system of New Zealand, thereby underpinning customary tribal rights. (SV)
Descriptors: Activism, Conservation (Environment), Cultural Education, Folk Culture
Fouberg, Erin Hogan – Journal of Geography, 2002
In this time of geopolitical uncertainty, one question that arises repeatedly is how will citizenship be affected by changes in sovereignty? This paper uses the concepts of spaces of dependence and spaces of engagement to understand both formal and substantive citizenship on American Indian reservations in the United States. By studying the…
Descriptors: Federal Indian Relationship, Citizenship, American Indians, American Indian Reservations
Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs, Phoenix. – 1992
This annual report describes the goals and activities of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs for fiscal year 1990-91. The commission is made up of seven tribal representatives, two non-Indians, and six ex-officio members from state government. In October 1990, the commission held a 2-day Indian Town Hall in Phoenix (Arizona) on the future of…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Annual Reports, State Agencies