Imagined geographies: Sovereignty, indigenous space, and American Indian struggle
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In this article, I seek to complicate scholars' understanding of the “modular” form of the nation‐state by examining four kinds of indigenous political space that figure in contemporary American Indian struggle in the United States: (1) “tribal” or indigenous‐nation sovereignty on reservation homelands; (2) comanagement of off‐reservation resources and sites shared between tribal, federal, and state governments; (3) national indigenous space in which Indian people exercise portable rights beyond reservations; and (4) hybrid political space in which Indian people exercise dual citizenship and assert rights as tribal citizens under treaty and other federal Indian law, as U.S. citizens under the Constitution, and as social or cultural citizens within a multicultural U.S. society.
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Sovereignty is the foundation of Indigenous nationhood, referring to the inherent right to self-governance and rights to self-determination over lands, waters, resources, citizenry, and territories.
“Sovereignty is the foundation of Indigenous nationhood, as it refers to the inherent right to selfgovernance as well as rights to self-determination over lands, waters, resources, citizenry, and territories (Biolsi, 2005).”
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“Sovereignty is the foundation of Indigenous nationhood, as it refers to the inherent right to self-governance as well as rights to self-determination over lands, waters, resources, citizenry, and territories (Biolsi, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Biolsi, T.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Biolsi, Thomas
- Venue
- American Ethnologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-05
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 239-259
- ISSN
- 0094-0496 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1425
- OpenAlex
- W2116127710
- Cited by
- 297
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 77.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Ethnologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Social Sciences › Law › Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Systems and Governance
- Keywords
- Indigenous sovereignty, nation-state, tribal sovereignty, reservations, co-management, federal Indian law, treaty rights, dual citizenship, imaginary geography, multiculturalism
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