Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution (eBook)

The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents

Keith Richotte Jr. (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3452-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce, and the others, had been asked to adopt a tribal constitution, but he was unhappy with the document, as it limited tribal governmental authority. However, white authorities told the tribal nation that the proposed constitution was a necessary step in bringing a lawsuit against the federal government over a long-standing land dispute. Bruce's choice, and the choice of his fellow citizens, has shaped tribal governance on the reservation ever since that fateful day.In this book, Keith Richotte Jr. offers a critical examination of one tribal nation's decision to adopt a constitution. By asking why the citizens of Turtle Mountain voted to adopt the document despite perceived flaws, he confronts assumptions about how tribal constitutions came to be, reexamines the status of tribal governments in the present, and offers a fresh set of questions as we look to the future of governance in Native America and beyond.

Autor

Keith Richotte Jr. (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also proudly serves as an associate justice of the Turtle Mountain Tribal Court of Appeals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones, 1 map, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abram R. Serven • A.C.J. Farrell • Advisory Committee • Al and Louis LaFountain (or LaFontaine) • Alexander Ramsey • Alex Martin • allotments • anishinaabe • Assinboine • Belcourt, North Dakota • Blackfoot • bungi • Carlisle Institute • C.A. Ruffee • CFR courts • Charles H. Asbury • Charles L. Davis • Chester A. Arthur • claim against the federal government • Commissioner of Indian Affairs • Committee of 32 • Committee of Medicine Lake • Convention of 1818 • Co-Operative Association • Courts of Indian Offenses • Cree • Cuthbert Grant • Cyrus Beede • Dakota • David P. Delorme • Devils Lake • Dillon S. Myer • Dunseith Herald • Edgar A. Allen • enrollment council • ethnogenesis • ethnohistory • E. W. Brenner • executive order reservations • Father Georges Antoine Belcourt • Fort Berthold Reservation • Francis J. Scott • Franklin Roosevelt • fur trade • Grand Forks, North Dakota • Green Setting Feather • halfbreed • Harold Bachman • Haskell Institute • Heber M. Creel • Henry J. McQuigg • Henry M. Teller • Hiram Price • House Concurrent Resolution 108 • Hudson’s • Hudson’s Bay Company • Indian Claims Commission • Indian Congresses • Indian police • Indian Reorganization Act • James H. Hyde • J. Baptiste Martell, Jr. • jim thorpe • John A. Stormon • John Bottineau • john collier • John Philip Sousa • John Vondall • John W. Cramsie • Kanick • Little Shell • Louis Riel • Lynn Frazier • Mandan • Manitoba • McCumber Agreement • Métis in the United States • Métis nationalism • Million Dollar Band • Minnesota • Mitchif • Montana • North Dakota Indians • Northwest Company • Ojibwa • ojibway • Oki=ma-ma-kan • Old Crossing Treaty • Patrick Gourneau • Pembina, North Dakota • Pemmican War • Plains Ojibwe • Porter J. McCumber • Red Lake • Red River • Red Thunder • Richard Franklin Pettigrew • Richard Monette • Robert Bruce • Roger C. Craige • Rolette County • Rose Miller Friday • Rupert’s Land • R. V. Belt • Self-determination • special jurisdictional act • Stephen Janus • Sweet Corn Treaty • Ten Cent Treaty • termination • Theodore Brien • Thomas Little Shell • tribal constitution • tribal courts • tribal governance in the 19th century • tribal governance in the 20th century • tribal politics • tribal sovereignty • Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians • Turtle Mountain Reservation • Turtle Mountains • Turtle Mountain Star • Turtle Mountain Tribal Court of Appeals • United States Court of Federal Claims • US-Canadian border • Vine Deloria, Jr. • Voight v. Bruce • Wellington Salt • White Earth reservation • William A. J. Sparks • William Winfield • Willis Van Devanter
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3452-X / 146963452X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3452-4 / 9781469634524