David E Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 86860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3385-8981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent
Indigenous Governance is a comprehensive, critical examination of Native political systems-the senior political sovereigns on the North American continent in terms of their origin, development, structures, and operation. Nearly six hundred Indigenous governments operate on lands connected to the state and federal governments. This study will, of necessity, be a broad comparative and illustrative analysis of these organic bodies. This study provid…
Absence Does Not Make the Indigenous Political Heart Grow Fonder
Native Americans have been structurally excluded from the discipline of political science in the continental United States, as has Native epistemology and political issues. I analyze the reasons for these erasures and elisions, noting the combined effects of rejecting Native scholars, political issues, analysis, and texts. I describe how these arise from presumptions inherent to the disciplinary practices of U.S. political science, and suggest a …
Navajo Political Experience
Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with as much accessibility as thoroughness and detail. T…
Hollow Justice: A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States
"This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programs were instituted, Native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. David E. Wilkins addresses the important question of what one nation owes anothe…
CATHLEEN D. Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
Journal Article Cathleen D. Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933. Get access Cathleen D. Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodis…
The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution
The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, indepe…
The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline
Patricia A. Emison. The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xii + 108 pp. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–271–03305–1. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Oaths of Office in Tribal Constitutions: Swearing Allegiance, but to Whom
Oaths of Office in Tribal ConstitutionsSwearing Allegiance, but to Whom? David E. Wilkins (bio) and Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a hunting nation of the Great Plains, dev…
On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions
Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
Journal Article Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands Get access Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. By Robertson Lindsay G.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) David Wilkins David Wilkins University of Minnesota Search for other works by this …
American Indian Politics and the American Political System (Spectrum Series)
Aaron Gould Sheinin
Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies
Clearing. Path:Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies. Nancy Shoemaker, ed. New York: Routledge, 2002. 215 pp
Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law
Journal Article Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law Get access Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. By Wilkins David E. Lomawaima K. Tsianina. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. vi + 326 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Brad Asher Brad Asher Louisville, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, I…
The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years
Journal Article The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. By Thomas W. Cowger. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 217 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1502-9.) Get access David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1573, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
American Indian sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The masking of justice
Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights (review)
James M. McClurken, comp. Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. ix + 572 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth $34.95
Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations
Journal Article Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations Get access Deloria VineJr. Wilkins David E., Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 209 pp. $30 (hardback). $14.95 (paperback). Jill Norgren Jill Norgren John Jay College and University, Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Iss…
Racial and Ethnic Studies, Political Science, and Midwifery
Radiocarbon chronology andδ13C analysis of mid-to late-Holocene aeolian environments, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA
The Red Dunes of Guadalupe Mountains National Park are quartzose sand sheets and dunes stabilized by sparse plant cover. Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, and δ 13 C analysis were examined in two of the larger arroyos for correlating evidence of aeolian deposition, which in this basin is taken as an indication of arid conditions. Four quartz-sand lithostratigraphic units, representing intervals of aeolian activity, are identified. Radiocarbon dat…
American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice
Journal Article American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice Get access American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. By Wilkins David E.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xv + 403 pp. Glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Larry Burt Larry Burt Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
The Reinvigoration of the Doctrine of 'Implied Repeals: A Requiem for Indigenous Treaty Rights
Journal Article The Reinvigoration of the Doctrine of ‘Implied Repeals:’ A Requiem for Indigenous Treaty Rights David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.2307/846128 Published: 01 January 1999
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The United States Supreme Court and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice
Journal Article American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. By David E. Wilkins. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xviii, 403 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-79108-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-292-79109-7.) Get access Sidney L. Hairing Sidney L. Hairing City University of New York, Flushing, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population's…
"Constructing" Nations within States: The Quest for Federal Recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes
Creating and in some cases re-creating viable tribal political communities within the construct of the modern nation-state has proven to be a troublesome task for indigenous populations worldwide. The task for indigenous governments in the United States has been further complicated by federalism's divisions of power between the states and the national government. Native American tribes often find themselves waging a twofront battle in which they …
Reconsidering the Tribal‐State Compact Process
This essay evaluates the tribal‐state compact process, as one of several alternative, nonadversarial processes, warranting attention. It argues that, because of its binding character and relatively low cost (in contrast to litigation), and because it is based in the idea of tribes and states exhibiting mutual respect, the compact process is an advanced version of negotiation and bargaining that tribes and states should consider where appropriate
Tribal-State Affairs: American States as 'Disclaiming' Sovereigns
Journal Article Tribal-State Affairs: American States as ‘Disclaiming’ Sovereigns Get access David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 28, Issue 4, Fall 1998, Pages 55–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a030001 Published: 01 January 1998
Modernization, colonialism, dependency: How appropriate are these models for providing an explanation of North American Indian 'underdevelopment
This article analyses the relevance of contemporary literature in comparative politics to the problem of North American tribal underdevelopment. Its major objective is to evaluate the utility of several of the most prominent Third World models in comparative analysis - modernization, colonialism (and its variants, internal and neo) and the related perspective, dependency - and gauge their success rate in explaining tribal underdevelopment. We beg…
The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution
The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, indepe…
Hollow Justice: A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States
"This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programs were instituted, Native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. David E. Wilkins addresses the important question of what one nation owes anothe…
"The U. S. Supreme Court's Explication of "Federal Plenary Power: An Analysis of Case Law Affecting Tribal Sovereignty, 1886-1914
tutional issues and circumstances that influence tribal-federal affairs. A central feature of this dynamic dialogue is the incongruous relationship between the United States Congress's exercise of plenary power and the tribes' efforts to exercise their sovereign political rights. This essay traces the historical, legal, and political origins and transformation of this pivotal concept from 1886 to 1914, an important period in its development. Anal…
Absence Does Not Make the Indigenous Political Heart Grow Fonder
Native Americans have been structurally excluded from the discipline of political science in the continental United States, as has Native epistemology and political issues. I analyze the reasons for these erasures and elisions, noting the combined effects of rejecting Native scholars, political issues, analysis, and texts. I describe how these arise from presumptions inherent to the disciplinary practices of U.S. political science, and suggest a …
Oaths of Office in Tribal Constitutions: Swearing Allegiance, but to Whom
Oaths of Office in Tribal ConstitutionsSwearing Allegiance, but to Whom? David E. Wilkins (bio) and Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a hunting nation of the Great Plains, dev…
Indian Treaty Rights: "Sacred Entitlements or "TemporaryPrivileges
INTRODUCTION\nTribal reserved lands and the (sometimes porous) federal legal protection of those territories and the natural resources contained therein, both within and without reservation boundaries, are critical for the perpetuation of tribal survival. Individually, these natural resource rights—rights to hunt, gather, and fish, and to own and utilize water, timber and minerals—have been studied in depth by various scholars. My intention, howe…
The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years
Journal Article The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. By Thomas W. Cowger. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 217 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-1502-9.) Get access David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1573, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Radiocarbon chronology andδ13C analysis of mid-to late-Holocene aeolian environments, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA
The Red Dunes of Guadalupe Mountains National Park are quartzose sand sheets and dunes stabilized by sparse plant cover. Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, and δ 13 C analysis were examined in two of the larger arroyos for correlating evidence of aeolian deposition, which in this basin is taken as an indication of arid conditions. Four quartz-sand lithostratigraphic units, representing intervals of aeolian activity, are identified. Radiocarbon dat…
The Winds of Injustice: American Indians and the U.S. Government
Nine reprinted essays delineate the fundamental concepts of native American justice and explore some of the most important modern issues concerning justice encountered by native Americans. The topics include mythology and culture, US government policy, reservations, Leonard Peltier and the AIM upri
The Assisi Problem and the Art of Giotto
Alastair Smart. The Assisi Problem and the Art of Giotto: A Study of the Legend of St. Francis in the Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. 110 pls.+ 310 pp. $25.75. - Volume 26 Issue 1
Guatemalan Political History: National Indian Policy, 1532-1954
The relationship between Spanish and later Guatemalan state with Mayan Indians over past four centuries is a fundamental component of Guatemalan political history. Since beginnings of nation, when Mayans were political and military entities of power and independence with whom Spanish had to come to terms; to 1944-1954 Revolutionary Era, when Indian communities were finally conceded limited social, economic, and political rights; and period from 1…
Transformations in Supreme Court thought: The irresistible force (Federal Indian law & policy) meets the movable object (American Indian tribal status)
This article is a content analysis examination of 107 federal court cases involving American Indian tribal sovereignty and federal pleary power rendered between 1870 and 1921. Our focus, however, is the U.S. Supreme Court's Indian Law jurisprudence; thus ninety of the cases analyzed were Supreme Court opinions. The cases seemingly entail two separate braces of opinions. One brace included decisions which affirmed tribal sovereignty. The other bra…
Modernization, colonialism, dependency: How appropriate are these models for providing an explanation of North American Indian 'underdevelopment
This article analyses the relevance of contemporary literature in comparative politics to the problem of North American tribal underdevelopment. Its major objective is to evaluate the utility of several of the most prominent Third World models in comparative analysis - modernization, colonialism (and its variants, internal and neo) and the related perspective, dependency - and gauge their success rate in explaining tribal underdevelopment. We beg…
The Cloaking of Justice: The Supreme Court's Role in the Application of Western Law to America's Indigenous Peoples
The debate over which legal Indigenous Peoples should govern NativeAmerican political power and property rights, or even whether they should be protected by law at all, caused conflicts challenging the autonomy of the legal system and led to changes of the original principles of Indian rights. The outcome of that conflict raises two questions of federal Indian law. One is whether its principles contributed to the survival of Native Americans in t…
"The U. S. Supreme Court's Explication of "Federal Plenary Power: An Analysis of Case Law Affecting Tribal Sovereignty, 1886-1914
tutional issues and circumstances that influence tribal-federal affairs. A central feature of this dynamic dialogue is the incongruous relationship between the United States Congress's exercise of plenary power and the tribes' efforts to exercise their sovereign political rights. This essay traces the historical, legal, and political origins and transformation of this pivotal concept from 1886 to 1914, an important period in its development. Anal…
Reconsidering the Tribal‐State Compact Process
This essay evaluates the tribal‐state compact process, as one of several alternative, nonadversarial processes, warranting attention. It argues that, because of its binding character and relatively low cost (in contrast to litigation), and because it is based in the idea of tribes and states exhibiting mutual respect, the compact process is an advanced version of negotiation and bargaining that tribes and states should consider where appropriate
Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement. Kenneth S. Stern
"Constructing" Nations within States: The Quest for Federal Recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes
Creating and in some cases re-creating viable tribal political communities within the construct of the modern nation-state has proven to be a troublesome task for indigenous populations worldwide. The task for indigenous governments in the United States has been further complicated by federalism's divisions of power between the states and the national government. Native American tribes often find themselves waging a twofront battle in which they …
The Winds of Injustice: American Indians and the U.S. Government
Nine reprinted essays delineate the fundamental concepts of native American justice and explore some of the most important modern issues concerning justice encountered by native Americans. The topics include mythology and culture, US government policy, reservations, Leonard Peltier and the AIM upri
Indian Treaty Rights: "Sacred Entitlements or "TemporaryPrivileges
INTRODUCTION\nTribal reserved lands and the (sometimes porous) federal legal protection of those territories and the natural resources contained therein, both within and without reservation boundaries, are critical for the perpetuation of tribal survival. Individually, these natural resource rights—rights to hunt, gather, and fish, and to own and utilize water, timber and minerals—have been studied in depth by various scholars. My intention, howe…
Timing and Extent of Late Quaternary Paleolakes in the Trans-Pecos Closed Basin, West Texas and South-Central New Mexico
The Trans-Pecos Closed Basin is a hydrographically closed region covering 20,000 km 2 centered on Salt Basin, 160 km east of El Paso, Texas. Geomorphic and limnetic evidence have been used to identify four major highstands for Lake King during the last glacial maximum (LGM). Additional geomorphic features from a second, recently identified, paleolake, Lake Sacramento, have been found in the Beargrass subbasin, a nested subbasin approximately 75 k…
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice
"Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith," wrote Felix S. Cohen, an early expert in Indian legal affairs. In this book, David Wilkins charts the "fall in our democratic faith" through fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly c…
With the greatest respect and fidelity: ’ A Cherokee vision of the ‘Trust’ doctrine”
The trust relationship is the conceptual/philosophical framework against which all relations between the federal government and indigenous groups are conducted. Yet despite the centrality of this concept, federal policymakers have no consistent or agreed upon definition of what the trust relationship actually entails (Wilkins, 1997). And, more importantly, indigenous conceptions of trust have rarely been assessed. This article analyzes and advanc…
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The United States Supreme Court and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty
American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice
Journal Article American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. By David E. Wilkins. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xviii, 403 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-79108-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-292-79109-7.) Get access Sidney L. Hairing Sidney L. Hairing City University of New York, Flushing, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Tribal-State Affairs: American States as 'Disclaiming' Sovereigns
Journal Article Tribal-State Affairs: American States as ‘Disclaiming’ Sovereigns Get access David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 28, Issue 4, Fall 1998, Pages 55–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a030001 Published: 01 January 1998
Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization
This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population's…
Racial and Ethnic Studies, Political Science, and Midwifery
Radiocarbon chronology andδ13C analysis of mid-to late-Holocene aeolian environments, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA
The Red Dunes of Guadalupe Mountains National Park are quartzose sand sheets and dunes stabilized by sparse plant cover. Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, and δ 13 C analysis were examined in two of the larger arroyos for correlating evidence of aeolian deposition, which in this basin is taken as an indication of arid conditions. Four quartz-sand lithostratigraphic units, representing intervals of aeolian activity, are identified. Radiocarbon dat…
American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice
Journal Article American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice Get access American Indian Sovereignty and the U. S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. By Wilkins David E.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xv + 403 pp. Glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Larry Burt Larry Burt Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
The Reinvigoration of the Doctrine of 'Implied Repeals: A Requiem for Indigenous Treaty Rights
Journal Article The Reinvigoration of the Doctrine of ‘Implied Repeals:’ A Requiem for Indigenous Treaty Rights David E. Wilkins David E. Wilkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.2307/846128 Published: 01 January 1999
American Indian sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The masking of justice
Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights (review)
James M. McClurken, comp. Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. ix + 572 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, appendix, index. Cloth $34.95
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