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Life on Native American reservation
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Living or Surviving on Native American Reservations

Ceremonies, Ceremony, Tribal Knowledge, Big Bang Theory, Native Culture, Indigenous Peoples, Great Spirit, Rationality, Modernism, Science, Religion, Western Traditions, Heaven on Earth, Utopia, Market Economy, Western Nations, Economic Domination, Natural Resources, Cultural Interpretation, Environment, Native Worldview, Climate Change
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In a Rational World, Can Tribal Knowledge Lead Us Into the Future?

Plutocracy, President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Egalitarian, Distrubution of Wealth, One Percenters, Democracy, Tribal Gaming, Gaming Profits, Indian Gaming, Market Economy, Tribal Business
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Plutocracy in the US and Egalitarian Indian Nations

An Indian of the Tarahumara Mountains in northern Mexico in January 2012.
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Indigenous Nationalities and the Mestizo Dilemma

Native American Education, Tribal Communities, Tribal Leaders, Tribal History, Tribal Culture, Tribal Identity, Native American Students, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Assimilation, Forced Assimilation, Tribal Sovereignty, Sovereignty, Economic Development, Graduation Rates, Graduation Rate, Tribal Citizens, Tribal Schools
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Tribal Identity and Native American Education

Indigenous Rights, President Donald Trump, Donald Trump, President Trump, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Economic Development, Army Corps of Engineers, Tribal Rights, Environmental Issues, Hunting Rights, Fishing Rights, National Environmental Policy Act, Negative Environmental Impacts, Clean Air, Northern Cheyenne, Isleta Pueblo, Clean Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Treaty Rights, UNDRIP, United Nations, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Tyranny of the Majority

Indigenous Worldviews, Western Values, Walking in Two Worlds, Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Religions, Christianity, Multiculturalism, multiple worldviews, multiple cosmic visions, Western Worldview, Christian, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria Jr., Mother Earth, Materialism, Environmentalism
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Westerners Need Indigenous Worldviews to Survive

Native American History, Termination, Termination Era, Tribal Self-Government, Treaties, Indian Treaties, Federal Government, President Richard Nixon, Indian Nations, Termination Policy, Treaty Rights, Indian Affairs, Trust Land, Tribal Citizenship, Civil Rights, Economic Development, Tribal Traditions, Alcatraz Island, Occupation of Alcatraz Island
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Should Indian Nations Fear the Return of Termination Policy?

Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, Tribal Sovereignty, Casinos, Indian Casinos, Federal Recognition, Indian Reservations, Racism, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Tribal Government, Indian Gaming, Self-Government, 10th Amendment, Indigenous Rights, Cultural Preservation, Affordable Care Act, Oil Pipelines
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Can We Trust Donald Trump?

Mission Indians of Southern California make baskets and hair ropes in this drawing that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1877.
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Mission Indians and Indigenous Economy

self-determination, self-government, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indian policy, Donald Trump, President Richard Nixon, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal, tribal government, drain the swamp, Treaties, Indigenous Rights, Civil Rights
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Will Indians Survive Donald Trump?

Old Mission San Juan Bautista in California was constructed in 1797.
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Reservations Versus California Missions: Did Either Protect Indian Land?

President Donald Trump signs an executive order for a federal hiring freeze alongside White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (center), U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (right) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 23, 2017. Trump’s policies are threatening tribal sovereignty.
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Trump’s Policies Threaten Tribal Sovereignty

Spanish missionaries expected the assimilation of Native Americans
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Spanish Colonists Expected the Assimilation of Native Americans

Pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline are not only a danger to the environment, but they trample indigenous rights.
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Fracking, Pipelines and Coal Projects Trample Indigenous Rights

Works by Picasso and Rivera at LACMA
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Picasso and Rivera: Artists Inspired By Indigenous Roots

Indian lands are seen in 1784 in blue, and now in red. Is it possible to keep communal land in a market-based country?
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Is Keeping Communal Land Possible?

This tile work mural in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California, serves as a memorial dedicated to the original peoples of the island.
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Pastor Canoe: How the Missions Affected the Life of One Pimugna Man

Indigenous Wayuu children in the village of Pessuapa, Colombia.
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Indigenous Peoples Day, Columbus Day, or Both?

Yakama Nation celebrated the return of civil and criminal jurisdiction at an April 22 event. Yakama Tribal Councilman, Raymond “Moss” Smartlowit, right, signs a guest book with Washington State officials.
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Engaging Local and State Governments Can Be Difficult, But Should Be Done

Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton? Who will be more supportive of tribal self-governance and Indian rights?
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Clinton or Trump? Who Should Natives Support

Hillary Clinton is seen here in April 2016 after securing victory over Bernie Sanders in New York's Democratic primary race.
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Clinton, Democrats and Strengthening Indian Policy

An image from "Children of the Arctic" by Director Nick Brandestini. The documentary tells the story of four Inupiat teens growing up in the small community of Barrow, Alaska
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Subsistence and Sport Hunters: Individual Rights and Cultural Traditions

In this January 21, 2016, photo, an Aymara man holding a Wiphala flag is silhouetted against an early morning sky as he waits for the arrival of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales to take part in an Andean ritual honoring the 10 years Morales has served as leader of the South American country, at the archaeological site Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Morales elevated the status of the multi-colored flag that represents the people of the Andes, making it the co-official flag of Bolivia.
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UNDRIP and Plurinationalism Can Accommodate Indigenous Political Needs

Are indigenous relations a sign of the health of the U.S. or nation state political well-being? Does the miner’s canary work the same for Indigenous Peoples?
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The Indigenous Canary in the Coal Mine

This image shows a photograph of Miguel Trujillo of Isleta Pueblo and his daughter that was on display as part of an exhibit at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trujillo fought in 1948 for the right of American Indians to vote in New Mexico. While Native Americans were granted citizenship in 1924, many states still didn’t allow Natives to vote. (Full image below)
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US and Indigenous Plurinationalism

Analyzing Indigenous Peoples must start with analyzing indigenous cultures. This image is from the annual Stewart Father's Day Pow Wow in Carson City, Nevada.
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Starting at an Indigenous Place to Interpret Indigenous Cultures

In this January 21, 2016, photo, an Aymara man holding a Wiphala flag is silhouetted against an early morning sky as he waits for the arrival of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales to take part in an Andean ritual honoring the 10 years Morales has served as leader of the South American country, at the archaeological site Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Morales elevated the status of the multi-colored flag that represents the people of the Andes, making it the co-official flag of Bolivia.
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Indigenous Plurinationalism Requires Respect, Understanding

A woman wearing traditional indigenous dress carries incense as a procession enters the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on October 13, 2015. The Basilica celebrated its first ever Mass in the indigenous language of Nahuatl that day.
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Tribal and Christian Communities

Brayden White of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, right, and Tatiana Ticknor of the Yup’ik/Tlingit/Dena’ina listen as President Barack Obama speaks during the 2015 White House Tribal Nations Conference, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
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Plural Ethnicity or Plural Indigeneity?

The Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians has a General Council, which elects a Tribal Council for two-year terms. The people of Sew’ia are one of eight Cahuilla Bands, which include Cahuilla, Ramona, Los Coyotes, Torres-Martinez, Augustine, Cabazon, Agua Caliente, and Morongo.
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Kinship and Tribal Nations

"Columbus Takes Possession of the New World" by Cont Vittorio Bianchini (1797-1880 Italian). The Christian faith brought emphasis on the individual. (Full image below)
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Traditional Kinship Versus Christian Individualism

In this January 21, 2016, photo, an Aymara man holding a Wiphala flag is silhouetted against an early morning sky as he waits for the arrival of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales to take part in an Andean ritual honoring the 10 years Morales has served as leader of the South American country, at the archaeological site Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Morales elevated the status of the multi-colored flag that represents the people of the Andes, making it the co-official flag of Bolivia.
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Collective Assimilation: Resisting Full Citizenship

Background image: Constitution of the United States Foreground photo: White Deer, a proud Mohawk in 1901 at the Indian Congress, Pan-American Exposition.
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Consensus and Self-Determination

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Radicalism Between States and Tribes

Fur traders in Canada are seen here trading with Native Americans in 1777. In North America, the fur trade during the colonial and early U.S. periods was a major source of wealth production.
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Assimilation, Integration and Colonization

In this January 21, 2016, photo, an Aymara man holding a Wiphala flag is silhouetted against an early morning sky as he waits for the arrival of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales to take part in an Andean ritual honoring the 10 years Morales has served as leader of the South American country, at the archaeological site Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Morales elevated the status of the multi-colored flag that represents the people of the Andes, making it the co-official flag of Bolivia.
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An Indigenous Friendly Nation State?

Cherokee Nation officials celebrate the restoration of the Cherokee National Capitol building, which was built in 1869, on September 20, 2015. Present were, from left: David Walkingstick, Cherokee Nation Tribal Council; Crosslin Smith, Cherokee spiritual leader; Rex Jordan, CNB board of directors; Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation secretary of state; Joe Byrd, speaker of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council; Cherokee Nation Deputy Principal Chief S. Joe Crittenden; Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker; Shawn Slaton, CNB chief executive officer; Curtis Snell, Cherokee Nation Tribal Council; and Todd Hembree, Cherokee Nation attorney general.
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Culture Zones and Indigenous Identity

Montana State University-Bozeman offers a master's degree, graduate certificate program, and an undergraduate minor in Native American Studies.
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Host Nations and American Indian Studies: Respecting Indigenous Peoples

President Calvin Coolidge with four Osage Indians after Coolidge signed the bill granting Indians full citizenship in 1924.
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Subjects, Christians and Citizens: Paying the Cost of Colonization

This image is from the cover of Dennis Kelley's "Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America."
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New Agers and Pan-Indians: What Is the Difference?

The Hiawatha Belt (lower) and the Two Row Belt (top). Treaties and agreements of friendship were made among Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years before the formation of current nation states. Treaties of friendship required respectful relations, mutual agreements, responsibility, understanding, and predictable future conduct.
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Rules of Government: Indigenous Peoples and Nation States Disagree

The Hiawatha Belt (lower) and the Two Row Belt (top). Treaties and agreements of friendship were made among Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years before the formation of current nation states. Treaties of friendship required respectful relations, mutual agreements, responsibility, understanding, and predictable future conduct.
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Rules of Government: Indigenous Peoples and Nation States Disagree

Participants at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held at the UN Headquarters September 22 and 23, 2014.
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Increasing Indigenous Diversity: Classifying Is Oversimplifying

Veteran Bert Waters is seen here during Grand Entry at the 2015 Shinnecock Pow Wow.
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Respecting All Nations and Sustaining Cultures

A clay facial reconstruction of the Ancient One shows what he many have looked like.
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Returning the Ancient One

Participants at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held at the UN Headquarters in September.
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Indigenous Diversities: Each Nation Is Different

In Acoma Pueblo, the governors are selected by a religious leader and the community is organized into ceremonially significant clans.
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The Modernist View: Liberating Indigenous Peoples from Tradition and Culture

Chiefs of the Six Nations at Brantford, Canada, explaining their wampum belts to Horatio Hale September 14, 1871. The image shows Joseph Snow (Hahriron), Onondaga Chief; George H.M. Johnson (Deyonhehgon), Mohawk chief, Government interpreter and son of John Smoke Johnson; John Buck (Skanawatih), Onondaga chief, hereditary keeper of the wampum; John Smoke Johnson (Sakayenkwaraton), Mohawk chief, speaker of the council; Isaac Hill (Kawenenseronton), Onondaga chief, fire keeper; John Seneca Johnson (Kanonkeredawih), Seneca chief. Hale inscribed these photographs, which he sent to colleagues, “The wampum belts were explained to me on the reserve, at the residence of Chief G. H. M. Johnson; and at my request the chiefs afterwards came with me to Brantford, where the original photograph… was taken.—H. Hale, Clinton, Ont.” This copy of the photographs was one that belonged to J. N. B. Hewitt.
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Tribal Governments Come In Many Forms

President Richard Nixon
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How One U.S. President Became a Native Advocate