The Role of the U.S. in the Formation of a Constitution for the Hopi Tribe
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Authors
DeBiasi, W.M.
Issue Date
1978
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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The springboard for my Senior Individualized Project was a winter
internship at a private organization known as Institute for the Development
of Indian Law, in Washington, D.C. The Institute is funded by a
combination of private and federal grants, and has as its general goal
the upholding of civil and treaty rights of American Indian tribes.
My S.I.P. analysis will proceed from an institutional framework,
playing on the philosophical notions which characterized the New Deal period. These philosophical ideas are especially evident when applied
to New Deal Indian policy, which in many respects was a total philosophical,
if not in reality a practical departure from previous Indian
policy. Why the institutionalization of several of these philosophical
ideals failed to come about will be one of the major things highlighted
in my project. Some of the specific difficulties encountered in the
Hopi situation can then be extended in a general sense to all Indian policy.
I feel that institutionalism is the most convenient analytical
framework for several reasons: The original intention of the Indian policies behind
the formation of the Hopi constitution attempted to
create a universal solution to Indian problems by
injecting libertarian ideals into a practical policy.
Collier attempted to build certain libertarian principles
into the mechanisms of rule delineated by his
Indian policy. Institutional analysis will help draw
focus on whether or not these policies did in fact
embody libertarian principles, and to what degree
other factors may have limited the practical expression
of these principles. Also, this study will examine the formation and operation of a constitution. Ac constitution, in turn, contains the principles which provide a framework for institutions.
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vi, 40 p.
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