Native American tribes have a unique status in American law, and Native organizations increasingly assert their rights in a variety of areas from adoption to fi...

The passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 has allowed Native American tribes a new form of revenue generation. This new source of revenue facilitates entry into the U.S. political...

Research on tribal governance in the United States is scarce within modern public administration scholarship. Nonetheless, tribal governance is a pre‐Columbian practice that predates the U.S....

(2014). Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care: New approaches to contracting and accountability at the public administration frontier. Public Management Review: Vol. 16, Government-third Sector Partnersh...

This paper briefly explores instances of administrative indigenization—defined as native patterns neither imposed nor copied from Euro-centric systems—and implications for the study of Comparative...

(2014). Self-determination as a Collective Capability: The Case of Indigenous Peoples. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 320-334.

This study investigates the implementation of U.S. environmental protection laws under American Indian tribal governance. The landmark laws of the 1970s that form the core of America's environmental...

For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional lands and waters is of the utmost importance. In the U.S. context, scholars have documented an unfortunate neglect of water quality on tribal...

Abstract The permitting of large-scale industrial mines is often controversial and litigious. This article examines three legal battles over the exploratory permitting of the Pebble mine in southwe...