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Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States. The U.S. federal government recognized American Indian tribes as independent nations and came to policy agreements with them via treaties.
Indian country jurisdiction, or the extent which tribal powers apply to legal situations in the United States, has undergone many drastic shifts since the beginning of European settlement in America. Over time, federal statutes and Supreme Court rulings have designated more or less power to tribal governments, depending on federal policy toward ...
It’s a history worth exploring on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Monday, October 12, 2020 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S.. The holiday recognizes the native tribes of the U.S. before ...
500 Nations is an eight-part American documentary television series that was aired on CBS in 1995 about the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents events from the Pre-Columbian era to the end of the 19th century. Much of the information comes from text, eyewitnesses, pictorials, and computer graphics.
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A number of Native American tribes took captives in war, but usually these captives were able to later become full members of the community via adoption or marriage. [34] While this has been called "slavery" by some anthropologists, none of the named tribes exploited slave labor on a large scale. [34]
Barbarians is a 2004 miniseries on The History Channel which tells the story of tribes from the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages.Two series have currently been produced, each consisting of four episodes – the first aired in 2004, and the second aired in 2007.