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Documents of Native American Political Development - 1933 to Present (Hardcover)
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Documents of Native American Political Development - 1933 to Present (Hardcover)
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Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States,
over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This
encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly
disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about
staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural, religious, and
economic changes. These developments also wrought profound changes
in indigenous politics and longstanding governing institutions.
David E. Wilkins' two-volume work Documents of Native American
Political Development traces how indigenous peoples have maintained
and continued to exercise a significant measure of
self-determination contrary to presumptions that such powers had
been lost, surrendered, or vanquished. Volume One provided
materials from the 1500s to 1933. This collection of primary source
and other documents begins in 1933 and spans the subsequent eight
decades. Broadly, the volume organizes this period into the
following distinctive eras: indigenous political resurgence and
reorganization (1934 to 1940s); indigenous termination/relocation
(1940s to 1960s); indigenous self-determination (1960s to 1980s);
and indigenous self-governance (1980s to present). Wilkins presents
documents including the governing arrangements Native nations
created and adapted that are comparable to formal constitutions;
international and interest group records; statements by prominent
Native and non-Native individuals; and sources featuring important
innovations that display the political acumen of Native nations.
The documents are arranged chronologically, and Wilkins provides
concise, introductory essays to each document, placing them within
the proper context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list
of suggestions for further reading. This continued examination of
fascinating and relatively unknown indigenous history, from a
number of influential legal and political writings to the formal
constitutions crafted since the American intervention of the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934, will be an invaluable resource for
scholars and students of the history, law, and political
development of Native peoples.
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