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Article: Colonial tribal governments promote weakness
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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- January 19, 2000
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Porter, Robert B.
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
01-19-2000
Colonial tribal governments promote weakness
Robert B. Porter
Editor's note: Robert B. Porter is an associate professor of Law at the
University of Kansas and a member and former attorney general of the Seneca
Nation. He can be contacted at reporter@ukans.edu or 505 Green Hall,
Lawrence, KS 66045.
It is no surprise that American colonization had a dramatic effect on the
structure and operation of Indigenous tribal governments. As part of its
historic efforts to confiscate our lands and subjugate our peoples, the
United States facilitated destruction of almost all of our traditional
governments by imposing foreign constitutional or ...