The Emergence of Tribal Governments: Strategy, Meanings and the Institutionalization of Alternatives: Introduction
Keywords: American Indians, Tribal governments, Sovereignty, Institutionalization, Federal policies, Intergovernmental collaboration, Social change, Urban populations, Reservation communities, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Abstract: In the late 1960s, American Indians…
Read moreThe Emergence of Tribal Governments: Legal Indeterminacy, Historical Categorizations of Tribes and the Reemergence of Tribes as Governments: Chapter 2 by Erich Steinman
Keywords: Tribal sovereignty, Federal policies, Native American tribes, Government status, Indian Reorganization Act, Supreme Court rulings, Self-determination policy, Conquered peoples, Minority status, Treaty rights Abstracts: Chapter Two provides a…
Read moreSelf Governance Process Evaluation: Research and Evaluation Design
Keywords: Self-Governance, Indian Nations, 1871 Appropriations Act, U.S. Congress, Government-to-Government, Tribal Compacts, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native American, Sovereignty, Treaty Relationships, Evaluation Project Abstract: The Self-Governance Process Evaluation…
Read moreMemorandum of Understanding for Establishing Procedures for the Administration of a Cooperative Land Use Planning Prgram between Swinomish and Skagit County, WA
Memorandum of Understanding for Establishing a Coordinated Tribal/County Regional Planning Program Between the Swinomish Indian Tribe and Skagit County, Wa
First Progress Report of the UN Study on Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements Between States and Indigenous Populations
25 August 1992
Read moreSecond Progress Report of the UN Study on Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements Between States and Indigenous Populations
31 July 1995. Also available in PDF format.
Read moreTreaty Rights Workshop Chronologies for Western Washington Tribes
Timeline of Wa. history, treaty relations, and Gov. Issac Stevens
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The Chehalis River Treaty Council and the Treaty of Olympia (Includes transcript of treaty making session with Gov. Stevens)
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The Treaties of Puget Sound 1854-55 (Background information on the treaty signings and the persons responsible).
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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