40 Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Indigenous Women's Reflections

40 Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Indigenous Women's Reflections

Format

Book Chapter

Book Title

The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty

Editor

Kristen A. Carpenter, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, and Angela R. Riley

First Page

39

Last Page

51

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Description

I approach this discussion by noting that Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez raises two critical oppositional principles: the collective political right versus the individual rights norm. Individual rights are the keystone in the Constitution of the United States. However, tribal rights for collective political entities are also affirmed in the Constitution in the provisions that establish relationships with the tribal nations. This political, nation-to-nation relationship was explicitly acknowledged and reaffirmed in Morton vs. Mancari. The most important right that tribal people claim for themselves is that as sovereigns. We have to remember that tribes were first sovereigns within the United States. And, as the noted scholar Charles Wilkinson reminds us, the tribal sovereigns were pre-constitutional, post-constitutional, and, in the international law context of indigenous law, extra-constitutional.

ISBN

9780935626674

Publication Date

1-27-2012

City

Los Angeles, CA

Publisher

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

Disciplines

Law

40 Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Indigenous Women's Reflections

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