Sovereignty and Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States
Intro -- Preface: A Note on Terminology -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1 The Importance of Land -- 2 The Value of Sovereignty -- 3 The Question of Development -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and the US Government -- 1 Colonialism -- 2 American Indians -- 2.1 Nation-to-Nation Relationship in the Colonial Period and the Early United States -- 2.2 Relocation Policy and the Reservation System -- 2.3 Assimilation and the General Allotment Act -- 2.4 Termination -- 2.5 Stewardship and Self-determination -- 3 Native Alaskans -- 3.1 Native Society in Alaska at Seward's Purchase -- 3.2 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- 3.3 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act -- 4 Native Hawaiians -- 4.1 Hawai'i: The Kingdom, the Republic, and the State -- 4.2 Assumption of Assimilation -- 4.3 Cultural Preservation After Statehood -- 4.4 Proposed Nation-to-Nation Relationship -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Sovereignty -- 1 Legal and Theoretical Sovereignty -- 1.1 The Meaning of Sovereignty in the Context of Indigenous Peoples in the United States -- 1.2 The Cultural Value of Self-determination -- 2 Tribal Recognition -- 2.1 Federal Recognition -- 2.2 State Recognition -- 3 Tribal Membership -- 3.1 Blood Quantum -- 3.2 Descendancy and Residency -- 3.3 Termination and Disenrollment -- 4 Sovereign Land -- 5 Organizations Governing Land Use -- 5.1 Tribal Governments -- 5.2 Alaska Native Regional Corporations -- 5.3 Hawaiian Home Lands -- 6 Cultural Sovereignty -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Economic Outcomes of People -- 1 American Indians and Native Alaskans in Federal Data -- 2 Well-being in the Lower 48 and Alaska -- 3 Native Hawaiians -- 4 Comparison to Areas of Persistent Poverty in the United States -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Value and Use of Land.