Nas Final

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Allotment policy

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Federal Indian Policy initiated to break up tribal governments, abolish Indian reservations by the allotment of communally held reservation lands to individual Indians for private ownership, and force Indians to assimilate into Euro-American society

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Colonialism

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The policy and practice of a strong power extending its control territorially, materially, and psychologically over a weaker nation or people.

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Doctrine of discovery

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first articulated in the Seminole case Johnson vs. McIntosh, this doctrine effectively excluded indian tribes from direct participation as national entities in the process of international community development.

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Domestic dependent nation

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This was a phrase that showed the status of tribal nations. The Court concluded that tribes lacked foreign national status, while they were still not states, as defined by the US constitution, but still had a significant degree of internal jurisdiction as "domestic dependant nations"

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Fractionated heirship

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the status of Indian lands that arose because of the General Allotment Act and its amendments. All land and property was divided between the land owner's surviving heirs. About half of alloted land in heirship status is held by multiple owners, causing problems with interest agreement.

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Indian Country

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All of the land under the supervision and the protection of the US governmentthat has been set aside primarily for the use of Indians, including reservations, individual allotments, and pueblos.

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Indian Reorganization Act

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A 1934 congressional measure that meant the end to the devastating Allotment policy. It would mean the purchase of lands that offset some of what was lost through the Allotment policy, and a measure of economic restoration.

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Indigenous

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A population that is composed of the existing descendants of peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country wholly or partially at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin arrived there from other parts of the world.

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Nation

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A social group that shares the same ideology, common institutions, customs, and a sense of homogeneity, controls a territory viewed as a national homeland and has a beleif in a common ancestry.

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Plenary power

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Congress has the authority to conduct the federal government's affairs with Indian Tribes, enact legislation that effectively trumps state government involvement in Indian related matters, holds virtually endless authority over Indian tribes, land, and resources

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Reservation

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An area of land owned by a tribe and legally held in trust status by the US federal government

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Sovereignty

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the power of a culturally and territorally distinct group of people to develop institutional arangements that both protect and limit personal freedoms by social control.

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Termination policy

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Federal Indian policy from 1953 to '60 which legislatively severed federal benefits and support services to certain tribes in order to force the dissolution of their reservations

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treaty

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A formal agreement between multiple sovereign nations that establishes legal rights for the parties involved.

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trust doctrine

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the unique moral and legal duties of the federal government to assist Indian tribes in the protection of their land, resources, and cultural heritage.