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Imagined geographies: Sovereignty, indigenous space, and American Indian struggle
Author(s) -
Biolsi Thomas
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2005.32.2.239
Subject(s) - indigenous , sovereignty , citizenship , politics , multiculturalism , treaty , state (computer science) , reservation , political science , indian country , constitution , law , space (punctuation) , sociology , public administration , algorithm , computer science , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy
In this article, I seek to complicate scholars' understanding of the “modular” form of the nation‐state by examining four kinds of indigenous political space that figure in contemporary American Indian struggle in the United States: (1) “tribal” or indigenous‐nation sovereignty on reservation homelands; (2) comanagement of off‐reservation resources and sites shared between tribal, federal, and state governments; (3) national indigenous space in which Indian people exercise portable rights beyond reservations; and (4) hybrid political space in which Indian people exercise dual citizenship and assert rights as tribal citizens under treaty and other federal Indian law, as U.S. citizens under the Constitution, and as social or cultural citizens within a multicultural U.S. society.