Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rebuilding a Nation. An Analysis of the Citizenship and Governmental Reformation of the Osage Nation

博士论文研究：重建一个国家。

• 批准号: 0550602
• 负责人: Peter Schmidt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0550602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Rebuilding; Nation.

Abstract: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rebuilding a Nation. An Analysis of the Citizenship and Governmental Reformation of the Osage Nation. SES:0550602This project investigates the process of governmental reform currently underway on the Osage Reservation. In December of 2004 Congressional legislation (HR 2912) lifted 98 years of federal control, allowing the Osage people to once again determine their own citizenship and form of government. Based on my preliminary research on the Osage Reservation it is apparent that the Osage Tribal Council is using the opportunity opened by HR 2912 to reconstruct the Osage Nation, which was abolished in 1900 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). As the appointed members of the Osage Reform Commission solicit opinions about the future of Osage citizenship and government, unique insight can be gathered about nationhood and citizenship within indigenous communities today. In particular, this project attempts to further out understanding of how various sets of people within the Osage Nation articulate Osage nationhood based on differences in age, headright status, and residential location and how the reform commission negotiates these differences in their creation of a governing document. The central hypotheses to be tested are: 1. Those people of Osage descent who reside outside the Osage Reservation will define the Osage Nation in open terms. By open I mean that they will want to include all lineal descendants of the 1906 allotment act and not limit citizenship to such factors as blood quantum or reservation residence. 2.Those people holding less than one headright will want a one-man-one-vote system of election. The old form of government relied on receiving a headright from a deceased relative prior to be able to vote. 3.Younger people will be more in favor of creating tri-partite government (containing executive, legislative, and judicial branches) than will older people. These hypotheses will be tested based upon data from a survey, which will correlate demographic factors such as age, headright status, and residential location with responses to questions about how those surveyed think citizenship ought to be determined and what form of government should be adopted. The survey data will be analyzed within the context of the study of the Osage Nations governmental reform process. The will study provide invaluable information about nationhood beyond its usual Euro-American confines.In addition to investigating the process of governmental reform currently underway on the Osage Reservation, this research will contribute to the doctoral training of a female Osage graduate student wishing to learn more about her own community, the larger issues discussed within this research, and the process of conducting anthropological field work. Additionally, this research will support the training of several Osage youths in the skills of interviewing, event recording, transcribing, and data analysis. The Osage tribe has been provided with an historical record of the factors leading up to this reform, the obstacles faced, and how these problems were dealt with. A record of these reforms provides insight into the challenges and possible strategies for strengthening future efforts. Furthermore, lessons from this research will serve as a model for other communities, particularly other American Indian nations, in their own efforts of governmental reform and nation building.

翻译后摘要：博士论文研究：重建一个国家。奥塞奇民族的公民身份与政府改革分析。SES：0550602本项目调查了奥色奇保留地目前正在进行的政府改革进程。 2004年12月，国会立法（HR 2912）解除了98年的联邦控制，允许奥萨奇人再次决定自己的公民身份和政府形式。根据我对奥塞奇保留地的初步研究，很明显，奥塞奇部落理事会正在利用HR 2912开辟的机会重建奥塞奇民族，该民族于1900年被印第安人事务局（BIA）废除。 在奥塞奇改革委员会的任命成员征求关于奥塞奇公民身份和政府未来的意见时，可以收集到关于今天土著社区内的国家地位和公民身份的独特见解。特别是，本项目试图进一步了解奥萨奇民族内的各种人群如何根据年龄，头名地位和居住地点的差异表达奥萨奇民族地位，以及改革委员会如何在创建管理文件时谈判这些差异。 要检验的中心假设是：1。那些居住在奥塞奇保留区以外的奥塞奇血统的人将以公开的方式定义奥塞奇民族。我所说的开放，是指他们将希望包括1906年分配法案的所有直系后代，而不是将公民身份限制在血统数量或保留地居住等因素上。2.那些拥有少于一个人头权的人会要求一人一票的选举制度。 旧的政府形式依赖于在能够投票之前从已故的亲属那里获得人头权。3.年轻人比老年人更赞成建立三方政府（包括行政、立法和司法部门）。 这些假设将根据一项调查的数据进行测试，该调查将年龄，headright状态和居住地点等人口因素与受访者认为应该如何确定公民身份以及应该采用何种政府形式的问题的回答相关联。 调查数据将在研究奥萨奇民族政府改革进程的范围内进行分析。 这项研究将提供有关国家超越其通常的欧美范围的宝贵信息。除了调查目前正在进行的政府改革的过程中的奥萨奇保留，这项研究将有助于一个女奥萨奇研究生希望了解更多关于她自己的社区，在这项研究中讨论的更大的问题，并进行人类学实地工作的过程中的博士培训。此外，这项研究将支持对几名奥塞奇青少年进行采访、事件记录、转录和数据分析技能的培训。 奥塞奇部落得到了导致这一改革的因素、面临的障碍以及如何处理这些问题的历史记录。 这些改革的记录使人们能够深入了解各种挑战和加强今后努力的可能战略。 此外，从这项研究中吸取的经验教训将成为其他社区，特别是其他美洲印第安民族，在其自身的政府改革和国家建设的努力中的典范。