American Indian Tribes’ Financial Accountability to the United States Government: Context, Procedures and Implications
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: The relationship between American Indian tribes and the U.S. government is complex and evolving. For years, it was best characterized by paternalism and hostility, but in 1975, under President Richard Nixon’s leadership, Congress passed the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. The policy it embodied acknowledged the failure of previous approaches and reaffirmed the government-to-government relationship between Indian nations and the U.S. government. Today, not only as a result of the Act and its “self-governance” amendments, but also because of the tribes’ growing connections with departments of the U.S. government other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the relationship is characterized by flexibility in (or, from a tribal perspective, sovereignty over) tribal program and budget management.
Authors: C. A. Curtis, Miriam Jorgensen
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2189116933