Sovereign States and the Changing Definition of the Indian Reservation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4490862
AutoresImre Sutton (0000-0002-7463-1521, autor de correspondencia)
Año1976
Volumen66
Número3
Páginas281
Fecha de publicación1976-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/213886
OpenAlexW2318088516
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas1

LL places differ, whether as natural landscapes or as historically occupied sites. Although best identified by toponyms that sustain the idiographic character of place, natural and man-made phenomena can be grouped together and assigned generic identities-valleys, cities, farms. In fact, it is essential for the progress of science that we make order out of environmental complexity by creating this kind of nomenclature. We should be sure that terms mean what we think they do, especially when we utilize terms not of our making. On occasion colleagues have demonstrated that generic terminologies may be vague or misleading and that current definitions may not be in agreement.' If our training in the differentiation of places has been a useful tool in our own research, we should be aware that our methods can also shed light on the meaning of terms for the benefit of others. In this paper I suggest that this is the case with reference to the Indian reservation in the United States.2

Geography · Political science · Politics · Reservation · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · Archaeology and Natural History · Law