Indian claims act still stings after 30 years Deal a one-sided document, says Penobscot Nation chiefERIC RUSSELL
The Snyder Act, 25 U.S.C. § 13 (1921), extended citizenship to all Native Americans, but few took advantage of the law. In the 1950s many petitions for land claims against the United States were granted, with awards totaling nearly $1 billion. In 1968, Congress passed the Indian ...
Panel eyes changes to Indian claims act State commission hoping to clarify language distinguishing tribes, municipalitiesJEFF TUTTLEOF THE NEWS STAFF
The claims have progressed to the point now where not only are all of Indian civilization and all of its languages regarded as autochthonous (with Indo-European languages said to originate in India, and derived from Dravidian languages, rather than arriving from elsewhere and unrelated to Dravidian...
For this reason, as Sītā claims, they do not seem to belong to the same “race” (174–175). Goldman and Goldman (1996) speak of such differences between the asuras and rākṣasas as one of class (66). Asuras are regarded as upper class and upper-caste, which explains their ...
The supreme truth is that the luminous essence of the Self, progressively shedding away the form of ignorance it assumed due to its (essential) freedom, shines forth—first in the intentionality to reveal itself (vikāsonmukha), then in the act of self-revelation (vikāsat), and finally as...
A Single Penny, an Inch of Land, or an Ounce of Sovereignty: The Problem of Tribal Sovereignty and Water Quality Regulation under the Maine Indian Claims S... Cassandra Barnum.A Single, an Inch of Land, or an Ounce of Sovereignty:The Problem of Tribal Sovereignty and Water Quality ...
We selected these tribal governance systems as examples in lieu of proposing to conceptualize the entire “Indigenous experience” or a notion of “Indigenous governance,” which is too large and varied to make claims to regarding its deliberative nature in an entirety. This sample is non-...
Jayarāśi does not, as a rule, proceeds to demonstrate the principle of equipollence (isostheneia) of two opposing views, the well-known trademark of the sceptic (e.g. Pyrrhonist): he never claims that one can argue both in favour of x and agaist x equally satisfactorily. In fact,...
Despite the strengths of the study, there are some potential pitfalls and limitations; we recognize that observed monthly changes in eGFR based on fingerstick creatinine measures may not reflect actual changes in underlying kidney function but rather variability in creatinine production. Our plan is ...