The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty
The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty
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道路:印第安部落与政治自由
DOI:
10.2307/1853373
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发表时间:
1980
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通讯作者:
J. Henderson
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作者:
J. Juricek;R. Barsh;J. Henderson
Until the late nineteenth century, the United States generally treated Indian tribes as self-governing political entities. Chief Justice Marshall, for example, characterized the tribes as "domestic dependent nations"1 ; to him, they were autonomous, but dependent, states that retained powers of self-government2 while assuming the protection of the United States. Even after the rapid westward movement of the frontier made the policy of physically separating tribes from the states impossible, the federal government sought to protect the Indians' autonomy by denying newly admitted states jurisdiction over the tribes within state boundaries.' Beginning in the 1880s, the political relationship between the tribes, the states, and the federal government began to change; this was the first of many fluctuations of federal policy between the extremes of forced assimilation of Indians and the protection of their legal, political, and cultural autonomy. In 1885, Congress established federal and state jurisdiction over some crimes committed between Indians on tribal lands,4 and in 1887 it asserted fed-