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changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights … the argument is rooted in a unique framework to address majority-minority constellations. This "intergroup differentiation …
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There are roughly 1.5 million American Indians in the United States. Approximately half reside on or near publicly owned reservations. The reservations are held in trust by the Federal government and are managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
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With the unacceptably high level of unemployment, poverty, and related social ills within native communities, discussions of tribal economic development strategies must be accompanied by practical methods that tribal governments and businesses can immediately put into practice. This book is...
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We use the Theil index and data from the 2012-2016, American Community Survey 5-Year Sample to document and analyze gender wage inequality for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women across single, multiracial and ethnic identity groups. Mean differences in hourly wages by gender...
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More than 565 Indigenous tribal governments exercise extensive sovereign and political powers within the United States today. Only about 230 of the native communities that created these governments, however, have chosen to adopt written constitutions to define and control the political powers of...
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Recently, over 80 Native American tribes have banned or disenrolled members of their tribes or denied citizenship to eligible individuals. This phenomenon has received media attention nationwide, and even the term the "disenrollment epidemic" was coined. Many speculate that at least some of it...
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In the past decades the United Nations (UN) elaborately dealt with the issues of discrimination, besides adopting many resolutions, three major documents came to life: the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 1992 Declaration on the Rights...
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This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their … indigenous groups, retaining the minority language along with Spanish increases employment opportunities. Furthermore, we show … children, controlling for other factors. Overall, this study shows that the continuity of minority languages across generations …
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This paper examines educational policies toward indigenous minorities in Japan and Canada during the period of nation-building, from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Both Japan and Canada first segregated indigenous children into separate...
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