Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: BeginningsForty years have passed since the Midcontinent American Studies Journal published its landmark special issue, "The Indian Today." 1 Since that publication, the landscape of Indian country has changed dramatically.This change has come primarily from an amazing cultural resurgence among Native Peoples in the United States-a resurgence that has manifested itself in everything from the Red Power movement to the birth of American Indian studies in the academy; to the renaissance of contemporary Native art, literature, and film; to the creation of tribal colleges, museums, and cultural centers; to the unprecedented rise in economic development; to notable gains in power in political and legal arenas.Integral to this resurgence have been the increased assertion and exercise of tribal sovereignty on the part of Native Peoples.Sovereignty-that which exists at the core of any people, that for which all peoples strive-was not a word used often to describe tribal nations in 1965.The significance of this word cannot be underestimated; consequently, it is a contested term, carrying with it multiple meanings and multiple implications for Native nations.If forty years ago the term sovereignty was seldom used, today it is used often, frequently in the same manner as terms like "freedom" and "liberty"passionately evoked but rarely accorded precise definition or practical mean-0026
Author: Amanda J. Cobb
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2150401389