Federal Acknowledgment of American Indian Tribes: The Historical Development of a Legal Concept

Quinn, William W.

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“…Research in tribal contexts must also consider the sovereign status of tribal governments (Quinn 1990). AIAN tribes maintained their own forms of government prior to European contact and prior to the establishment of the US as a country—many AIAN tribes continue governing their citizens today.…”

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“…AIAN tribes maintained their own forms of government prior to European contact and prior to the establishment of the US as a country—many AIAN tribes continue governing their citizens today. The US federal government recognizes the sovereignty of many AIAN tribes, which places AIAN individuals, organizations, and tribes in a unique political position (Quinn 1990). Sovereignty endows tribal governments with inherent authority over a range of research activities involving tribal members, including determination of research objectives and review of manuscripts prior to publication.…”

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Community Protections in American Indian and Alaska Native Participatory Research—A Scoping Review

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Experiences with unethical research practices have caused some American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) individuals, organizations, and tribes to mistrust health research. To build trust and repair relationships, current research with AIAN peoples often involves participatory research (PR) approaches. This article assesses community-level protections described in the scientific literature on PR involving AIAN communities. A scoping review search in PubMed and PsychInfo for articles published between January 2000 and June 2017 yielded an AIAN PR article dataset. Of 178 articles, a subset of 23 articles that described aspects of community protections were analyzed for descriptions of community-level protection practices. We identified the presence or absence of a description of four community protection measures in each article: a tribal research department, the development of community-level mechanisms for research regulation if not present, community collaboration throughout the research process, and project employment of a community member. The development of community-level mechanisms for research regulation was described in 39% of the articles. Ninety-one percent of these articles described community collaboration during the research process. Seventeen percent included descriptions of all four community-level protection measures. The extent and consistency to which community-level protections are described is variable; the current literature lacks reporting on community-level protection practices specific to tribal communities.

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Community Protections in American Indian and Alaska Native Participatory Research—A Scoping Review

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“…Furthermore, the relationship between the US government and each individual nation can complicate the experience of Indigenous identity for any person whose ancestors are indigenous to North America [28,29]. While many nations are federally recognized, some might be recognized by state governments but not the federal government, and other nations are still seeking recognition to gain access to resources [30]. Nations have also been coerced into establishing standards for people to claim enrollment as a member, practices that may allow some descendants of Indigenous people to continue to claim enrollment in a nation and bar others from such claims.…”

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“We’ve Always Been Engineers:” Indigenous Student Voices on Engineering and Leadership Identities

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Background: How do Indigenous engineering students describe their engineering leadership development? The field of engineering has made only slow and modest progress at increasing the participation of Indigenous people; an identity-conscious focus on leadership in engineering may help connect the practice of engineering with Indigenous students’ motivations and values. Methods: This study utilized a grounded theory qualitative approach to understand how Indigenous engineering students at a U.S.-based university experience engineering leadership. We explored the experiences of four Indigenous engineering students through one interview and one focus group. Results: Students pointed out how Indigenous peoples had long engaged in engineering work before contact with European settlers, and they saw an opportunity for leadership in applying their engineering knowledge in ways that uplifted their home communities. Conclusion: In addition to ways that engineering programs can better support Indigenous students who aspire to become practicing engineers, our study pointed to new directions engineering programs could take to frame engineering work as providing a toolkit to improve one’s community to leverage a wider set of motivations for entering engineering among many different communities underrepresented in engineering, including Indigenous students.

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“…In 1978, after years of ad hoc approaches to recognition (Quinn 1990), the Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Branch of Acknowledgment and Research, a subunit of the agency meant to evaluate claims to tribal status, and either grant or deny acknowledgment to the groups seeking it 9…”

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The Common Sense of Anti-Indian Racism: Reactions to Mashantucket Pequot Success in Gaming and Acknowledgment

Cramer

2006

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Anti-Indian racism, as typified by anticasino backlash, is a part of the "common sense" of race relations in the United States, which increasingly impacts federal administrative procedures used to acknowledge the existence of tribal status. Using ethnographic and archival research, this article shows that the backlash over Mashantucket Pequot recognition and casino success has taken the form, primarily, of racialized attacks on the Mashantucket Pequots' Indian identity. It argues that such backlash carries over to impact groups who seek recognition of their tribal status, and the legitimation that such recognition might bring to their identity. Examining the colonial legacies of anti-Indian racism shows us that such racial antagonism in the United States is nothing new. However, understanding the contexts within which its recent resurgence has occurred may help bring fairness to the acknowledgment process, and may further illuminate intersections of common sense racism and legal spheres in American life.

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Federal Acknowledgment of American Indian Tribes: The Historical Development of a Legal Concept

Cited by 39 publications

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Community Protections in American Indian and Alaska Native Participatory Research—A Scoping Review

Community Protections in American Indian and Alaska Native Participatory Research—A Scoping Review

“We’ve Always Been Engineers:” Indigenous Student Voices on Engineering and Leadership Identities

The Common Sense of Anti-Indian Racism: Reactions to Mashantucket Pequot Success in Gaming and Acknowledgment

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