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The New Trail of Tears

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by Naomi Schaefer Riley


  identity as Americans, 176

  military service, 3–4, 141, 175

  19th century, Tocqueville’s observations on, 185

  political power, 35

  problems, causes and solutions, viii–ix, xiii, 8, 177–179, 181

  religion practiced by, 119–120

  South Dakota, 84

  Anderson, Terry, 8, 13, 19, 182

  annuities from casino revenues

  addiction enabled by, 50

  apathy resulting from, 51

  college educations, funding, 52

  entrepreneurial spirit and, 96

  per member, Seneca Nation, 49

  Seneca Nation economy, effect on, 96

  victimhood narrative, 96

  apathy, annuities and, 51

  Apsaalooke Warrior Apartments, 3–4

  Arnouse, Felix, 40–41

  assimilation, 9, 28, 45, 120–123, 176–177

  attachment theory, 157–158

  Battle of the Little Bighorn, 3

  Beard, Elisa Villanueva, 127

  Beasley, Cheryl, 69, 99–101

  Bell, Greg, 111

  Benedict, Pope, 125

  Beyond the Indian Act (Flanagan, Alcantara & Le Dressay), 32, 42

  Bickel, Bruce, 135

  Biddle, Rishawn, 102

  black colleges, tribal colleges compared, 88–89

  Bland, Doug, 35

  Boldt decision (1974), 14

  Bordewich, Fergus, xii, 10, 14, 17, 68

  Brave Heart, Robert, 140

  Brock, Kathy, 28–29

  Brondel, John, 115

  Brooks, Lucille, 47–48, 61, 94–95

  Buck, Stuart, 100

  buffalo, 8, 26

  “Buffaloed: The Myth and Reality of Bison in America” (Schweikart), 26

  Bullard, Wyatt, 110

  Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

  employees per reservation Indian, ix

  number of employees, 16

  purpose, 8

  residential schools of, 120–121

  self-perpetuation, working toward, 182

  subsidy program funding, ix

  Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) trust authority. See also trust land policy, results of

  assumptions of incompetency underlying, 13, 15

  funds mismanagement, 13, 102, 179

  homesite lease monitoring, 18

  land ownership policies, 7

  Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), ix–x, 16, 101–102

  Bush, George W., 175

  Calder v. British Columbia, 28–29, 32

  Canada. See also First Nations

  First Nations land, responsibility toward, 29, 42–43

  reserve system vs. US system, 28–29, 34–35

  residential school system, 123–125

  Canada and the United States: Differences That Count (Thomas & Biette, eds.), 28

  Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 120–121

  Carlson, Leonard, 15

  casino revenues

  annuities from, results of, 50–51, 96

  benefits of, 50, 64–65, 96

  decline in, 6, 53–54

  political power and, 179

  casinos

  civil rights challenges, 165

  Indian Gaming Regulation Act (IGRA), 58

  non-Indian patrons/tourists, 6, 52–53

  Catholic Church, residential school system, 120–125

  Catholic Leadership Conference of Women Religious, 172

  change agents

  First Nations, 45–46

  opposition to/criticism of, 136–137, 179–180

  charter schools, 113–114, 136–137, 184

  Chavis, Ben, 68, 70–71, 75, 98, 100, 105–115, 179

  Cherokee Nation v. Hitchcock, 21

  Chief Dull Knife College, 20, 88, 90

  child abuse, physical and sexual

  causes underlying, 150

  rates of vs. national average, viii

  at removal schools, 123–124, 150–151

  reports on, suppression of, 155–157

  at residential schools, 123–125

  Spirit Lake reservation, 152–157

  children. See also students

  attachment theory, 157–158

  behavior, standards for, 174

  custody disputes, tribal government power over, 145–148

  illegitimate, raised by grandparents, 76

  legal protections for, 147, 166

  mental health resources, 153

  sexual behavior by, 152–157

  white, kidnapped and assimilated, 45

  child safety

  emotional, power over, 145–148

  in foster homes, 159

  in ICWA-approved homes, 159

  leaving the reservation for, 145–146, 167

  removal from home for, 148–150

  responsible adults available for, 159

  in schools, 82–83, 85, 88, 90–91, 106, 117, 139

  sex offenders on reservations, 152

  social services oversights, 159–160

  tribal courts politics/power over, 160, 163

  Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare, 145–146

  Christian religion, 119–120

  Church of the Holy Rosary, 139–140

  citizenship, 11, 16

  Civil War, 40 acres and a mule policy post-, 11

  Clinton/Whispering Pines band, 36–38

  Coalition for the Protection of Indian Children and Families, 148

  colonization of Native Americans, 120–123

  Columbus Day, 172

  Common Core standards, 93, 138

  Cook, Robert, 127

  Coulson, Andrew, 107

  Crawford, Deana, 38

  Crazy Horse School, 131–132

  Crazy Like a Fox (Chavis), 70

  crime, viii, 7, 182–183

  Crow Agency, 3

  Crowe, Jody Allen, 158

  Crow reservation, 178

  Crow tribe

  dependence on public funds, 21–22

  employment opportunities, 87

  energy reserves, development of, 19

  homelessness, rates of, 5

  home ownership, 4–5

  HUD debt, 4–5

  Resolution of the Crow Tribal Legislature to Honor God for His Great Blessings upon the Crow Tribe and to Proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord of the Crow Indian Reservation, 120

  schools, 87–88. See also Saint Labre Catholic school

  unemployment rate, 4

  veteran housing, 3–4

  youth, employment preparedness, 87

  cultural heritage

  erasing, removal schools purpose for, 120–123

  historically, mythology of, 14, 25–27, 41–42

  cultural heritage, retaining

  art gallery, 138

  Church of the Holy Rosary, incorporated into, 139–140

  community programs, 115

  museums and research centers, 175, 177

  native language curriculums, 138, 177

  Cuomo, Andrew, 53–54

  Curran, Jim, 132–133, 136

  cycle of dysfunctional parenting, 152–154, 159

  Dakota War of 1862, 173

  Dawes, Henry, 10, 14–15

  Dawes Act (1887) (General Allotment Act), 10–11, 16–17

  dead capital, land as, 15

  Department of Education (DOE) spending on BIE schools, x

  dependence, culture of

  abandoning individual responsibility, 38–39

  annuities creating a, 50–51, 96

  changing, possibility of, 44–45

  creating a, 179

  entitlement attitude accompanying, 48, 72–73, 76

  First Nations, 38–39, 44–45

  giving in to, 50, 69

  Doctrine of Discovery, 172

  Douglas, James, 30–31

  Douglas Treaties, 30–31

  Dropout Nation (Biddle), 102

  drug use, 7, 51, 151

  Eastern Sioux, Dak
ota War of 1862, 173

  economic development. See also First Nations economic development; specific bands

  consultation accommodation framework, 42–43

  federal constraints on, 20, 25, 27, 36, 39, 43–44

  First Nations, 24–25, 28, 39–44

  funding, 21–22, 73

  tribal restrictions on, 20

  trust land policy effect on, 12–13, 20, 24, 25, 27, 36, 39, 43–44

  economy, cash or barter, 37

  education. See also schools; teachers

  to civilize, historically, 10

  Common Core standards, 93, 138

  funding, 36, 50, 84

  Indian School Equalization Program, 102

  Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 167

  to leave the reservation, 36

  education, post-secondary

  attendance rates, 116–117, 139, 141

  First Nations, 39

  funding, 36, 52, 117

  graduation rates, 88, 134

  grants to colleges awarding Indian PhDs, 173

  readiness for, 88, 91–92, 130, 134, 135

  spending per degree, 89

  tribal colleges, 88–90

  education, post-secondary students

  return post-graduation, 119

  return pre-graduation, 92–93

  spending per, 88–89

  support for, 119

  education reform

  charter school models for, 184

  family and, 103

  parents rejection of, 94, 97

  possibility of, 103–104, 183–184

  tribal leaders opposition to, 137, 141, 183

  the elderly

  safety nets for, 96

  violence toward, 51

  Elleby, Nadina, 114–115

  Empire of the Summer Moon (Gwynne), 45

  employment opportunities

  casino jobs, 63–64

  First Nations, 43

  government positions, 64

  return to the reservation for, 55, 119, 127, 130–131

  schools, 86

  skills preparedness, 65, 87, 93, 98–100, 134

  tribal government, control over, 63–64

  tribal government control over, 89, 134

  types of, 20–21

  energy reserves, development of, 13, 19

  entitlement, attitude of, 48, 72–73, 76

  entrepreneurial spirit, 96

  Escalanti, Kenrick, 170

  Evans, Noel, 110

  family, disintegration of the, 76, 150, 152–154, 159

  Fatal Link (Crowe), 158

  fathers, funds replacing, 150

  fetal alcohol syndrome, 158–159

  Fiddler, Mark, 149, 152, 157–158

  Fiedler, Maureen, 172

  Fire Thunder, Cecilia, 101, 128, 137–138, 140

  First Nations

  agreement among, 36

  autonomy, political and economic, 27–28

  characterizations of, 27, 44

  civil unrest, possibility of, 35–36

  compensation for residential schools, 124–125

  dependence, culture of, 38–39, 44–45

  domestic violence, 45

  drug abuse, 45

  educational attainment, 39, 45

  employment opportunities, 43

  leaders for change, 45–46

  leadership, 30

  literature on, 25

  membership, federal determination of, 28

  parity, discrepancies in, 32–33

  percent of population, 35

  poverty, 45

  power of, 28, 35

  residential schools, 123–125

  treaties, 30–32

  whites and, Lebourdais on, 41–42

  First Nations economic development band-owned companies, 39–40

  consultation accommodation framework, 42–43

  federal constraints on, 39, 43–44

  property taxes, 28, 39

  regulatory delays, 25

  First Nations Property Ownership Act, 25, 28, 32, 36, 41, 180, 181

  First Nations property rights

  Aboriginal title, 32–33

  absence of, results from, 23–25

  federal controls, 33

  historically, 27, 30–31, 41–42

  inheritability of, 38

  land development, government’s duty to consult with on, 42–44

  land for compensation, 31–32

  land titles, constitutional section on, 29

  transferability of, 38

  of women, 27

  fishing rights, 14

  Flanagan, Tom, 32, 42

  Flood, Joe, 151

  food insecurity, 83

  Fort Yuma Indian reservation, 169–171

  Foxwoods Casino, 177

  Foxwoods Resort, 53

  freedmen, property ownership, 11

  gang activity, viii, 82

  Gates Millennium Scholarship, 139

  GEAR UP, 137, 141–142

  Gibbs, Gloria, 110

  Gill, Jeffrey, 56, 91

  Gover, Kevin, 175

  government subsidies, results of dependence on

  apathy, 50

  culture of dependence, 69, 179

  economic, 21–22

  entitlement attitude, 48, 72–73, 76

  family disintegration, 150

  individual responsibility, abandonment of, 38–39

  on Kamloops band, 38–39

  Grand Governing Council of the American Indian Movement, 172

  Greene, Jay, 127

  Guerrero, Kimberly Norris, 160

  Gwynne, S. C., 45

  Hagan, Kay, 74

  Hamilton, Ted, 120–122

  Hammonds, Ronald, 75–76, 97–98, 111

  Hammonds, Rosie, 72

  Hanson, Paul, 108

  Harris, Kurri, 117

  health care, ix, 21–22, 50, 74–75, 153

  Healthy Brains for Children, 158

  heroin use, 151

  Hinson, Jesse, 110, 113

  historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), 88–89

  Holman, Anaiya, 105, 110

  Holy Rosary Mission school (Red Cloud). See Red Cloud (Holy Rosary Mission school)

  homelessness, rates of, 5

  home ownership, 4–5, 17–19, 23–24, 38

  homesite leases, 18

  homicides, perpetrators of, 162

  horses, 8

  housing

  casino revenue and, 50

  subsidy program funding, ix–x

  substandard, trust land policy and, 6, 12–13, 23

  veterans, 3–4

  HUD (Housing and Urban Development), 4–5

  identity, American Indians, 176

  Incomplete, Illiberal, and Expensive (Milke), 32

  independence, 16

  Indian Act (1876), 33, 38, 39

  Indian Act (1876) Kamloops Amendment, 28

  Indian agents, 28, 39, 113–114

  Indian Child Welfare Act, 145–150, 158, 166, 183

  Indian Civil Rights Act, 163–164

  Indian Gaming Regulation Act (IGRA), 58

  Indian Health Service, funding, ix

  Indian mascots, 170–171

  Indian nations, number of, xii

  Indian race. See also American Indians; First Nations

  assumptions about, 13–15

  civilizing, possibility of, 10

  inferiority, theories on, 9

  Indian Reorganization Act (1934) (Indian New Deal), 12, 16–17

  Indians, Bureaucrats, and Land (Carlson), 15

  Indian School Equalization Program, 102

  Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 167

  Indian territories, upstate NY, 90

  Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 172

  industrial schools, 120–121

  infants

  drug-addicted, 145–146

  prenatal exposure to alcohol, 158–159

  Inuit children, r
eserve schools for, 123

  Israel, Seneca Nation compared, 62

  Jimerson, Christina, 91–92

  John, Michael, 57

  John, Michael A., 62–63

  Johnson, Ronald, 53

  Jordan, Michael, 67

  Jules, Manny, 22–23, 25–27, 32, 33–34, 44–46, 123–124, 180, 181

  Kamloops (city), 23–24

  Kamloops Amendment, 27

  Kamloops band

  children in residential schools, 123–124

  dependence on public funds, 38–39, 44–45

  discrimination against, 124

  economic development, hindrances to, 24, 27

  mortgage payments, 17–18

  property rights, 22–23

  self-sufficiency, desire for, 27

  trust land policy, results of, 24, 44

  wealth of, 24

  Kamloops reservation

  land leased to developers, 24–25

  land value vs. Kamloops (city), 24

  property taxes, 24

  Kennedy, John F., 61

  Killing the White Man’s Indian (Bordewich), xii, 10

  Kimelberg, David, 55–56, 58–61, 64, 179

  Kimelberg, Michael, 54–56, 60, 64

  Kinzua Dam, 61

  Kline, John, x

  Koppisch, John, 12–13

  Labre, Benedict Joseph, St., 115

  Lakota, 101, 122–123, 139–140

  Lame Deer, MT, 6–7, 87–88, 117–118

  land-spiritual values relation, x–xi, 20

  Laurier, Wilfrid, 41–42

  law enforcement, 7, 182

  Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), 130

  Lebourdais, Ed, 37, 41

  Lebourdais, Mike, 36–39

  Le Dressay, André, 24–25, 32, 33, 42

  Leonard, Clay, 139

  life skills preparedness, 50–51, 65, 87, 93, 98–100, 134

  Littlebear, Richard, 88, 119–120

  Little Owl, Karl, 3, 87, 119

  Little Shuswap band, 40

  Little Wound High School, 131

  Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 21

  Long, Larry, 162, 164

  Lowry, Lucy, 69, 98–99

  Lueck, Dean, 13

  Lumbee Indians

  economic development, funding, 73

  education, 69–70, 71–72, 73, 178

  independence from federal government, 69

  land ownership, 69–70

  public assistance, 74

  success without a reservation, 67–71

  MacDonald, Peter, 65–66

  MacShane, Denis, 156–157

  Marquez, Deron, 50

  Mashantucket Pequot tribe, 53

  Matthew, Keith, 39–40, 42–44

  Maynor, Maxie, 114

  McCaskill, Claire, 58–59

  McCrory, Pat, 113

  McLachlin, Beverly, 32

  McMahon, E. J., 53

  Menke, Joshua, 131–132, 134–135

  mental health resources, 153

  methamphetamine use, 7

  Métis children, reserve schools for, 123

  Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, 141–142

 

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