Nicholas C Peroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 685008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas C Peroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Peroff |
| SIGNATURE | PEROFF N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indian Policy as an Emergent Property of the American Policy Making Process
This paper argues that we can improve our understanding of American Indian policy if we think about it as an emergent behavior of the American policy making process. It is what the political system does and does not do that relates to Native nations. From a perspective guided by complexity theory, Indian policy appears to be about assimilating Indian land and natural resources and not about assimilating Indians into the larger American society. A…
WSSA in terms of itself: Associations within the association
Presidential address to the membership of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), at the annual conference of the Association in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2003.Thank you for attending t
Who is an American Indian
Who is an American Indian? This study draws on complexity theory and Deloria’s concept of spatial thinking to suggest that practical and conceptually useful qualitative differences in Indianness can be expressed by understanding tribes as complex adaptive systems (CAS). This understanding supports a model of American Indian identity that more fully reflects the diversity of Indian identities that exist and continue to evolve in the larger context…
Indian Gaming, Tribal Sovereignty, and American Indian Tribes as Complex Adaptive Systems
This paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in American Indian studies and, specifically, to gaming in Indian Country. Casinos may look like a good thing for Indian reservations. They can support economic development, tribal web pages, and the revitalization of tribal languages, arts, and community organizations. Less discussed, however, is the fact that a casino can also spawn major and irreversible changes i…
Indian identity
Indian identity has undergone profound changes in the Twentieth Century, but will not disappear in the foreseeable future. This article employs the "new sciences" theory of nonlinear systems, and the concept of metaphor to present Indianness and indianness as alternative images of Indian identity. Indianness is anchored in tribally-based metaphor and is an emergent property of a vital or "living" tribal community and indianness is a generic ident…
Indian policy and a couple of beers
Metaphor is a carrier. It conveys our knowledge of known things to the unknown The most pervasive methaphor in Indian affairs is the idea that the relationship of an Indian to the federal government is that of a ward to a guardian. The metaphor has bedeviled past Indian policy, dominates present thinking about Indian affairs and, worst of all, it molds our thinking about alternative prospects for the future of Indians in this country. The followi…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Journal Article Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954–1974 Get access Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954–1974. By Peroff Nicholas C.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. xiii + 282 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, references, index. $19.95.) Martin N. Zanger Martin N. Zanger University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Tribalism in Crisis: Federal Indian Policy, 1953-1961
Within three years DRUMS controlled MEI and tribal affairs and instilled a sense of pride and self-confidence.With support from Richard Nixon, the first president to speak out strongly against termination, and a more sympathetic political climate, on December 22, 1973, Congress restored federal recognition and protection and reestablished most of the former reservation.DRUMS succeeded through strong determination, political sophistication, the "p…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Who is an American Indian
Who is an American Indian? This study draws on complexity theory and Deloria’s concept of spatial thinking to suggest that practical and conceptually useful qualitative differences in Indianness can be expressed by understanding tribes as complex adaptive systems (CAS). This understanding supports a model of American Indian identity that more fully reflects the diversity of Indian identities that exist and continue to evolve in the larger context…
Indian identity
Indian identity has undergone profound changes in the Twentieth Century, but will not disappear in the foreseeable future. This article employs the "new sciences" theory of nonlinear systems, and the concept of metaphor to present Indianness and indianness as alternative images of Indian identity. Indianness is anchored in tribally-based metaphor and is an emergent property of a vital or "living" tribal community and indianness is a generic ident…
Indian Gaming, Tribal Sovereignty, and American Indian Tribes as Complex Adaptive Systems
This paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in American Indian studies and, specifically, to gaming in Indian Country. Casinos may look like a good thing for Indian reservations. They can support economic development, tribal web pages, and the revitalization of tribal languages, arts, and community organizations. Less discussed, however, is the fact that a casino can also spawn major and irreversible changes i…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Tribalism in Crisis: Federal Indian Policy, 1953-1961
Within three years DRUMS controlled MEI and tribal affairs and instilled a sense of pride and self-confidence.With support from Richard Nixon, the first president to speak out strongly against termination, and a more sympathetic political climate, on December 22, 1973, Congress restored federal recognition and protection and reestablished most of the former reservation.DRUMS succeeded through strong determination, political sophistication, the "p…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Journal Article Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954–1974 Get access Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954–1974. By Peroff Nicholas C.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. xiii + 282 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, references, index. $19.95.) Martin N. Zanger Martin N. Zanger University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974
Indian policy and a couple of beers
Metaphor is a carrier. It conveys our knowledge of known things to the unknown The most pervasive methaphor in Indian affairs is the idea that the relationship of an Indian to the federal government is that of a ward to a guardian. The metaphor has bedeviled past Indian policy, dominates present thinking about Indian affairs and, worst of all, it molds our thinking about alternative prospects for the future of Indians in this country. The followi…
Indian identity
Indian identity has undergone profound changes in the Twentieth Century, but will not disappear in the foreseeable future. This article employs the "new sciences" theory of nonlinear systems, and the concept of metaphor to present Indianness and indianness as alternative images of Indian identity. Indianness is anchored in tribally-based metaphor and is an emergent property of a vital or "living" tribal community and indianness is a generic ident…
Indian Gaming, Tribal Sovereignty, and American Indian Tribes as Complex Adaptive Systems
This paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in American Indian studies and, specifically, to gaming in Indian Country. Casinos may look like a good thing for Indian reservations. They can support economic development, tribal web pages, and the revitalization of tribal languages, arts, and community organizations. Less discussed, however, is the fact that a casino can also spawn major and irreversible changes i…
Who is an American Indian
Who is an American Indian? This study draws on complexity theory and Deloria’s concept of spatial thinking to suggest that practical and conceptually useful qualitative differences in Indianness can be expressed by understanding tribes as complex adaptive systems (CAS). This understanding supports a model of American Indian identity that more fully reflects the diversity of Indian identities that exist and continue to evolve in the larger context…
WSSA in terms of itself: Associations within the association
Presidential address to the membership of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA), at the annual conference of the Association in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2003.Thank you for attending t
Indian Policy as an Emergent Property of the American Policy Making Process
This paper argues that we can improve our understanding of American Indian policy if we think about it as an emergent behavior of the American policy making process. It is what the political system does and does not do that relates to Native nations. From a perspective guided by complexity theory, Indian policy appears to be about assimilating Indian land and natural resources and not about assimilating Indians into the larger American society. A…
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