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Scholars and indigenous leaders, in confronting the ignorance of the original principles in politics today and in the processes that have been established to negotiate a movement away from the colonial past, have usually accepted the framework and goal of sovereignty as core to the indigenous political movement. New institutions are constructed in communities to assert indigenous rights within a “tribal sovereignty” framework. And many people have reconciled themselves to the belief that we are making steady progress toward the resolution of injustices stemming from colonization.
See Antonio Mills, Eagle Down Is Our Law: Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994). This argument was likewise used by the Indian Claims Commission in determining Western Shoshone extinguishment of title to Newe Segobia. 32. Quoted in Sharon O’Brien, American Indian Tribal Governments (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), 57. 33. Worcester v. Georgia (1831). 34. Worcester v. Georgia (1831). 35. Worcester v. Georgia (1831). 36. Hopewell 1785; Holston 1791; Philadelphia 1794; Tellico 1798; Tellico 1804; Tellico 1805; Tellico 1805; Washington City 1805; Washington City 1816; Chickasaw Council House 1816; Cherokee Agency 1817; Washington City 1819 (Worcester v.
George E. Tinker, Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993). 14. Ronald Niezen, Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 15. , Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993). 16. Paul Prucha, American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). 17.