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• Title:Sovereignty for survival : American energy development and Indian self-determination / James Robert Allison III.
  
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• Author/Creator:Allison, James Robert III, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NS A45 S68 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cheyenne Indians.
  Crow Indians.
  Energy development--United States.
  
• Description:ix, 246 pages : maps ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Lamar series in western history.
  
• Summary:"In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian land. This challenge to corporate and federal authorities, initiated by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne nations, changed the laws of the land to expand Native American sovereignty while simultaneously reshaping Native identities and Indian Country itself. James Allison makes an important contribution to ethnic, environmental, and energy studies with this unique exploration of the influence of America's indigenous peoples on energy policy and development. Allison's fascinating history documents how certain federally supported, often environmentally damaging, energy projects were perceived by American Indians as potentially disruptive to indigenous lifeways. These perceived threats sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement that ultimately increased Native American autonomy over reservation lands and enabled an unprecedented boom in tribal entrepreneurship. At the same time, the author demonstrates how this movement generated great controversy within Native American communities, inspiring intense debates over culturally authentic forms of indigenous governance and the proper management of tribal lands."--Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-242) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780300206692 (alk. paper)
  0300206690 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Part one. Constructing bad deals.
  The tribal leasing regime
  Postwar energy demands and the southwestern experience
  "The best situation in their history"
  Part two. Local resistance.
  "The most important tribe in America"
  Determining the self
  Part three. The national campaign.
  Taking the fight national
  Recognizing tribal sovereignty
  Epilogue : new era, similar results.