Research Reports
Reflections on Traditional American Indian Ways, 1998
Threats to Tribal Sovereignty, 1998
Traditional American Indian Leadership: A Comparison with U.S. Governance, 1997
Recommendations
More educational information about tribal sovereignty must be produced. American Indians and non-Indians must have historical information about treaties and their basis for tribal sovereignty. Since little of this information was contained in the educational curriculum where policy makers received their education, it is now essential that this critical information be provided.
American Indian communities may want to increase their capacity for solving issues internally. Instead of deferring resolution of problems to outside communities or courts, American Indians can build their own capacity for internal problem solving, calling on traditional Indian values and beliefs.
Continue a forum for creating visionary tribal governments and leadership. Interaction between all members of the Indian community incorporates everyone's responsibility to solving critical issues facing American Indians.
Tribal governments may want to review the impact of their decisions on tribal sovereignty. Protecting and retaining the sovereign status of Indian tribes deserves the utmost obligation and responsibility of tribal leaders.
Tribes should remind Congress of the trust responsibility with Indian tribes. Tribal leaders, in dealings with the federal government, must continue to press government officials to live up to the promises ensconced in the trust responsibility doctrine.
Tribes and policy makers acknowledge the intrinsic value of treaties in the broader issue of tribal sovereignty. Treaties between Indian tribes and the U.S. government are rooted in the fact that Indian tribes were, and still are sovereign entities. Therefore, treaties are inextricably tied to the sovereign status of Indian tribes.
Tribal leaders and tribal governments may want to look for ways to incorporate traditional Indian values and beliefs in their decision making. Many tribes are now recognizing that far too much of their effort and time is spent examining issues from a non-native perspective.
Tribes should remain vigilant toward federal devolution and the negative impacts it has on their sovereign status. As funding of social programming is handed down to the states from the federal government, tribal governments are caught up in the switch, leaving them extremely vulnerable.
The
Well-Being of American Indian Children in Minnesota: Economic Conditions,
1994
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