Why Aren't Political Scientists Interested in Native American Politics

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ID6325326
AuthorsPaul Frymer (0000-0002-4207-4628, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume14
Issue4
Pages1042-1043
Publication date2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592716002929
OpenAlexW2563764017
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

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 set of alternative formulations that could expand our understanding of politics, including attention to other forms of law, constitutions, relationships to the environment, sovereignty, collective decision-making, U.S. history, and majoritarianism

American political science · Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnology · Native american · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Sovereignty · American History and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy

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