Aboriginal peoples and government responsibility

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Jerry D. Stubben

Native Americans and Political Participation opens the door to a previously invisible subject in political science and American history. Presenting, for the first time, data from a Native American survey of more than 400 elected and appointed tribal officials collected over the past ten years, this watershed work infuses facts with personal opinions of 20th-century Native American tribal leaders.Readers will learn how multitribe lobbying is funded by gambling revenues and meet key activists like the Means and Bellcourt brothers. Other topics covered include the National Congress of American Indians, the battle at Wounded Knee, and the American Indian Movement. Discussions of these and other events and organizations reveal the powerful ways in which American Indians are utilizing the political system to further their causes.

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Henry F. De Puy

Identifies and lists a brief synopsis of the many treaties entered into between the American Indians and the English colonies. Contained within the work are original sources of information of some of the most important events connected with the settlement of the United States and its land titles.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson’s eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government’s often shameful mishandling of what was called the “Indian problem”. Using official documents as authentic research materials, Jackson asserts that the government and citizens of the United States were the cause of the “problems”, and not the Native peoples.

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Susan Dudley Gold

Describes the numerous treaties between the various Native American peoples and the settlers from Europe, explaining how these new inhabitants used ways unfamiliar to the Indians to take their lands.