The reservation period, 1880–1960

Hoxie, Frederick E.

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“…The I994 National Election Study contacted 16 Native Americans. l 4 For more on voting prohibitions against Native Americans, see Hoxie (1996). Is To be sure, Price does not recommend such broad application for his model, but rather applies it to more specific areas of legislation within given a given committee.…”

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American Indian Policy in Committee: Structure, Party, Ideology, and Salience

Turner

2001

Politics & Policy

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This research explores the motivations for action on American Indian policy in the committees and subcommittees of both chambers of the U.S. Congress from 1947 to 1998. The goal is to discover which attributes lead committees to report American Indian bills to the full chamber. In order to achieve this goal, I first examine the reigning theories of committee action. Legislative scholars have long recognized that committee motivations are different than those of their parent chambers (Fenno 1973, Deering and Smith 1997). Moreover, varying principals create differences between committees as well (Rohde 1995, Maltzman and Smith 1995). The traditional emphasis on constituency and parent chamber demands, however, leaves committee behavior inadequately explained in American Indian policy—a field where constituency interest remains uniform and small and the parent chambers voice few demands, yet the amount and nature of legislative attention varies greatly. After taking a closer look at the committees which have held jurisdiction over matters relating to American Indians, and from a comparison with the general theories, I develop a set of hypotheses to explain the actions of Indian affairs committees. I argue that salience, party, institutional structure, and ideology play a more significant role in the development of American Indian policy at the committee level than most general theories of committee action would lead us to expect. I use regression analysis to provide empirical tests of these hypotheses and draw some tentative conclusions regarding the relationship between major and minor policy at the committee level. These conclusions contribute to congressional scholarship by offering explanations for committee behavior in a minor policy arena. In addition, they offer the field of American Indian policy a working model of legislative decision making for future exploration and refinement.

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American Indian Policy in Committee: Structure, Party, Ideology, and Salience

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2001

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“…An interdenominational survey conducted in 1921 revealed that slightly fewer than half of the 400,000 Native people were nominal Christians. 9 A 1998 article states that 'today, only between 10 and 25 percent (depending on what set of statistics one chooses to believe) of Natives consider themselves Christians'. 10 Such numbers, of course, beg the question of what it means to be a Native or Sioux Christian, and how one combines it with one's previous religious beliefs and practices.…”

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The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective

Lindenfeld¹

2007

Journal of Global History

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The paper analyses the multiple ways in which the Sioux have dealt with missionary Christianity between roughly 1860 and 1980, placing this in an international perspective. It addresses the question of how and why Christianity became pervasive among the Sioux despite the avowed purpose of missionaries to extirpate Native culture. It contends that the churches willy-nilly preserved many elements of that culture and provided leadership opportunities for Natives that were not available through other institutions. It examines this process in the light of several interpretations of missionary encounters drawn from other cases, both in North America and Africa. While the Sioux exhibited a variety of ways of adapting to Christianity and combining it with their native religion, the most prominent strategy was dual participation, the simultaneous separate practice of the two. 'Most Sioux people maintain membership in, and belief in the efficacy of, some Christian denomination.' Raymond J. De Mallie and Douglas R. Parks, 1987 1 'A very small percentage of Native Americans are practicing Christians.'

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Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence

Black

2007

Southern Communication Journal

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The reservation period, 1880–1960

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American Indian Policy in Committee: Structure, Party, Ideology, and Salience

American Indian Policy in Committee: Structure, Party, Ideology, and Salience

The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective

Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence

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