“keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty And Other Questions About Indian Country”
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...agency charged with administrating all things Indian, admits that no single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person’s identity as an Indian (5). Reid, Winton, and Gates (5) clarify that the answer to the question of who is Indian runs deeper than federal, legal, and even tribal description, that it must take into considerations such things as life experience, language, story telling, and even land. Land, in fact, is one of the primary determinants of Indianness as it has been defined throughout the history of our relatively young nation. The Native Americans were here long before the so-called discovery of this continent by Europeans. Europeans even reluctantly acknowledged that fact on occasion when dealing with Native American issues on a legal basis. This acknowledgement has survived even through the establishment of the United States in the concept of sovereignty, one of the most vital legal concepts that come into...
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