Indian Law
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Authors
Nilsson, Erik D.
Issue Date
1980
Volume
13
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Native Americans are a unique minority in this country. Their relations with the United States government have been turbulent-particularly so since the nineteenth century period of westward expansion. During the twentieth century, war lances and winchesters have been traded for law books, with varying degrees of success from the Indians' perspective.|American Indian law has developed from a patchwork conglomeration of treaties, constitutional mandates, administrative regulation, public law and judicial decision. Government Indian policies and the judicial treatment of Indian problems have vacillated between the contrary objectives of assimilation with and separation from the dominant white culture. This has not been a recent development. Over the past several decades these conflicting goals of blending the Indians into the white American mainstream and preserving their unique cultural heritage have led to inconsistent federal-tribal relationships...
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13 Creighton L. Rev. 1372 (1979-1980)
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Creighton University School of Law