Sovereignty of Native Americans

Question 1

Indian Gaming-Seminoles

Answer 1

Indian poverty and unemployment rates are still highest. Seminoles (independent tribes and government resisting U.S gov’t but isolated and impoverished)

Question 2

Sovereignty

Answer 2

Sovereignty-The rights to : self-government, self-determination, local linguistic, and cultural expression of people within an indigenous polity with regard to their territories and does not require complete independence.

Question 3

Need-based sovereignty

Answer 3

Indians as wards of the state. Need service provision and occupy subordinate positions in settler states.

Question 4

Economic double bind

Answer 4

Economic double bind - need economic resources to exercise sovereignty but leads others to challenge the legitimacy of their sovereignty and citizenship