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Indigenous Governance is a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the governing methods utilized by the senior sovereigns within North America. Author David E. Wilkins provides detailed examination of the origins, evolution, and structures of these governments and scrutinizes the many diverse arrangements employed by the nearly 600 contemporary Indigenous nations, including the more than 200 Alaska Native communities and the complex, rapidly evolving situation of Native Hawaiians.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Three Sovereigns: A Comparison of Native nations, the federal and state governments
- Chapter 2: Political Organization B.C. (Before Contact)
- Chapter 3: European Intrusions/Native Political Transitions
- Chapter 4: Another Star on the Flag: Attempts to Create an Indigenous State
- Chapter 5: Modern Native Constitutionalism
- Chapter 6: Governing Systems
- Chapter 7: The Enigmatic Nature of Leadership
- Chapter 8: Citizenship and Membership
- Chapter 9: Electoral Politics
- Chapter 10: Political Economics
- Chapter 11: International Diplomacy in the 21st Century
- Chapter 12: Indian Country Justice
- Chapter 13: Governments and the Media
- Chapter 14: Peoples of Alaxsxaq and Kanaka Maoli
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
About the author
David E. Wilkins holds the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. A member of the Lumbee Nation of North Carolina, he received his doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. His recent book publications include Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent (Oxford, 2023); Documents of Native American Political Development: 1933-Present (Oxford, 2019); American Indian Politics and the American Political System, 4th ed., co-authored with Heidi Stark (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018); Dismembered: Native Disenrollment and the Battle for Human Rights, co-authored with Shelly Hulse Wilkins (University of Washington, 2017); and others.
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Indigenous Governance breaks new ground by collecting material from law, policy, history, and anthropology into a single volume to tell the story of Indigenous government. The text explicitly rejects the notion that there is a single way that Indigenous peoples govern themselves, and instead provides context for plurality through the use of rich and varied examples, which add depth to each chapter...Highly recommended.
