Edition |
Second edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction to Indian and white values -- PART 1 : ELEMENTS OF INDIAN SOCIETY AND POLICIES: Jackson Barnett and the allotment of Muscogee Creek lands -- The Osage murders and oil -- Struggle for Pueblo water rights in the Southwest -- Termination of the Klamath and timberlands in the Pacific Northwest -- Chippewa fishing and hunting rights in the Great Lakes -- Controversy and spirituality in the Black Hills -- PART 2 : DEFENSE STRATEGIES FOR TRIBAL NATURAL RESOURCES: The demand for natural resources on reservations -- The Council of Energy Resource Tribes -- Battlegrounds in the courts -- Environmental issues and tribal leadership -- American Indian philosophy and global concerns -- Healing the earth in the twenty-first century -- APPENDICES: CERT member tribes and natural resources for 1990 -- Structure of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes -- Tribal oil and gas production. |
Summary |
The struggle between Indians and whites for land did not end on the battlefields in the 1800s. When this hostile era closed with Native Americans forced onto reservations, no one expected that rich natural resources lay beneath these lands that white America would desperately desire. Yet oil, timber, fish, coal, water, and other resources were discovered to be in great demand in the mainstream market, and a new war began with Indian tribes and their leaders trying to protect their tribal natural resources throughout the twentieth century. History professor Donald Fixico details the course of this struggle, providing a wealth of information on the resources possessed by individual tribes and the way in which they were systematically defrauded and stripped of these resources. Fixico contends that federal policies originally devised to protect Indian interests ironically worked against the Indian nations as the tribes employed new tactics with the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, using the law in courts and applying aggressive business leadership to combat the capitalist invasion by mainstream America. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
Note |
All rights reserved. |
Subject |
Council of Energy Resource Tribes.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Natural resources -- United States.
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Indians of North America -- Land tenure.
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Indian reservations -- United States.
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Indians -- Land tenure.
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Indian land transfers.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9781607321484 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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1607321483 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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1607321491 (ebook) |
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9781607321491 (ebk) |
Standard No. |
heb40271 hdl |
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