Sociological study on the formation of governing bodies among First Nations tribes.

Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek

Politics & Social Sciences

Champagne, Duane

Social Sciences

Stanford University Press

The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of California Mission Indians have lived in Southern California in the area now known as Los Angeles and Ventura Counties from time immemorial. Throughout history, these Indigenous Californians faced major challenges as colonizers moved in to harvest the resources of the California lands. Through meticulous archival research, authors Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg trace the history of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band from the time before the Spanish arrived in the Americas to the present day. The history of Southern California's Indigenous communities is mapped through the story of family and their descendants, or lineages. The authors explain how politically and culturally independent lineages merged and strengthened via marriage, creating complex and enduring coalitions among Indigenous communities. The Indigenous people of Southern California faced waves of colonizers--the Spanish, then the Mexicans, followed by Americans--and their coalitions allowed them to endure to today. Champagne and Goldberg are leading experts in Native sovereignty policies and histories. They worked in collaboration with members of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians to illustrate how the community formed and persisted. A Coalition of Lineages is not only the story of a Native Southern California community, it is also a model for multicultural tribal development for recognized and nonrecognized Indian nations in the United States and elsewhere. &nbsp;

A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

History

Goldberg, Carole

Americas

University of Arizona Press

Many cultures throughout the world have been and are now confronted with issues similar to those encountered by American Indian societies over the past 400 years. By examining the similarities and differences in social and cultural organization among several American Indian societies, as well as the ways that outsiders have attempted to politically, economically and culturally subordinate American Indians. Champagne has developed a method for explaining the variation in societal strategies for political and cultural survival. Champagne's analysis should be applicable to the study of societies in other parts of the world in order to identify specific internal institutional or external supports that other indigenous societies facing colonizing powers may need in order to retain political and cultural autonomy. This book is volume 32 in Cultural Survival's report series, Cultural Survival, a nonprofit human rights organization described by Newsweek as "the conscience of anthropology," works to raise public awareness of the human rights of tribal groups and ethnic minorities around the world.

American Indian Societies: Strategies and Condition of Political and Cultural Survival

Cultural Survival, Inc.

American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival

Cultural Survival

This new and updated second edition of Captured Justice accounts for legislation and government policy changes at all levels―tribal, federal, state, and local―that have affected the operation of Public Law 280 and its regime of state criminal jurisdiction within parts of Indian country. Among other developments, it incorporates the findings and recommendations of the 2013 report of the Indian Law and Order Commission, advances by Tribes and states in achieving greater intergovernmental cooperation, and new writings on criminal justice that suggest additional grounds for questioning the efficacy of Public Law 280 and additional ways of mitigating its adverse impacts on tribal communities. Although the research presented in this book could not be redone, its findings are still relevant because the fundamental problems associated with Public Law 280 as a nonconsensual, under-resourced regime remain.

Captured Justice: Native Nations and Public Law 280

Administrative Law

Carolina Academic Press

The policy of forced assimilation, called ''termination,'' that Congress pressed upon Native Americans in the 1950s brought state criminal jurisdiction to more than half of all Indian reservations for the first time in American history. The law that accomplished most of this shift from a combination of tribal and federal control to state control is widely known as Public Law 280. Tribes did not consent to the new and alien forms of criminal justice, and the federal government provided no funding to state or local governments to ease the new burdens thrust upon them. Present-day concerns about community safety in Indian country raise questions about the appropriate strategy for achieving that end. Is expanded state criminal jurisdiction an appropriate response, or should that option be off the table? Does the experience with Public Law 280 suggest conditions under which state jurisdiction is more or less successful? Captured Justice is the first systematic investigation of the success or failure of the Public Law 280 program substituting state for tribal and federal criminal justice in Indian country. The authors first identify a set of six conditions that are necessary for criminal justice to succeed in Indian country. They then present the results of hundreds of interviews and surveys at sixteen reservations across the United States, tapping reservation residents, tribal officials and staff, and state and federal law enforcement officers and criminal justice personnel, to find out how the state jurisdiction regime is faring and to compare experiences on Public Law 280 reservations with those on non-Public Law 280 reservations. Before-and-after case studies of tribes that were able to remove state jurisdiction from their reservations complete the book. Captured Justice is both an important assessment of an historic federal Indian policy that remains with us today, and a guide to future criminal justice policy for Indian country.

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Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek

A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

American Indian Societies: Strategies and Condition of Political and Cultural Survival

American Indian Societies: Strategies and Conditions of Political and Cultural Survival

Captured Justice: Native Nations and Public Law 280

Captured Justice: Native Nations and Public Law 280