by Jeremy Loudenback When most people think about government in the United States, sovereign Native American governance structures are seldom considered. There are 566 federally recognized American-Indian tribal governments in the country that stretch across 27 states, including the nation’s largest states and all of the states west of the Mississippi Read more…
Understanding State-Indigenous Relations in the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand September 12, 2013 12:00pm to 1:30pm Many American Indian tribal governments have placed great emphasis on winning formal commitments of “government-to-government” relationships from various federal and state agencies, and have been willing to foreclose other political opportunities in order Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback On Thursday September 12, University of Washington scholar Laura Evans brings attention to a rarely visited governance issue: the role of indigenous governments interfacing with federal, state, and local government . In the face of meager budgets and strikingly low incomes for many communities, some Native American tribal Read more…