“This article analyzes the EPA’s relationship with Native Americans, which has been neglected by historians. It seems like the EPA, a federal agency born during the self-determination era, would be open to new approaches in federal Native American policy, but this was not the case in 2005. Republican senator James Inhof of Oklahoma added a …
2018- The Midnight Rider: The EPA and Tribal Self-Determination Read More »
“When dealing with tribes, the EPA ultimately decides how to apply the Clean Water Act (CWA, 1972), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA, 1974), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, 1980), also known as Superfund. The EPA sets the scientific parameters to which tribes must acquiesce. In the case of the …
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“Reclaiming Native Truth is a national effort to achieve equity, inclusion and policy changes that will improve the lives of Native families and communities. For the first time ever, we know what different groups of Americans — across socioeconomic, racial, geographic, gender and generational cohorts — think (and don’t know) about Native Americans and Native …
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“Because the FTCA and the interplay between the federal and tribal governments can be challenging, it behooves the practitioner in Indian Country to have a fundamental understanding of FTCA and Self-Determination Act issues, as they are likely to impact representation of injured plaintiffs as wells as tribes and tribal organizations.”
“This paper offers a partial political history of Santa Clara Pueblo by studying the process of factionalism within a long tradition of adaptive self-governance. Factionalism was (and is) a complex and persistent aspect of the internal politics of Pueblo society. At Santa Clara, factionalism played (and plays) a key role in the ideological shifts that …
