Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict - Couverture rigide

Orr, Raymond I.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0806153911 ISBN 13 : 9780806153919

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2017

Synopsis

For Native Americans, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how different tribes' politics and internal conflicts have evolved over time, Reservation Politics offers rare insight into the role of historical experience in the political lives of Native Americans.

To trace variations in political conflict within tribes today to their different historical experiences, Orr conducted an ethnographic analysis of three federally recognized tribes: the Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico, the Citizen Potawatomi in Oklahoma, and the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota. His extensive interviews and research reveal that at the center of tribal politics are intratribal factions with widely different worldviews. These factions make conflicting claims about the purpose, experience, and identity of their tribe. Reservation Politics points to two types of historical experience relevant to the construction of tribes' political and economic worldviews: historical trauma, such as ethnic cleansing or geographic removal, and the incorporation of Indian communities into the market economy. In Orr's case studies, differences in experience and interpretation gave rise to complex worldviews that in turn have shaped the beliefs and behavior at play in Native politics.

By engaging a topic often avoided in political science and American Indian studies, Reservation Politics allows us to see complex historical processes at work in contemporary Native American life. Orr's findings are essential to understanding why tribal governments make the choices they do.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Raymond I. Orr is Associate Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on indigenous and ethnic politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806153911
• ISBN 13: 9780806153919
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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