This book makes the case that two moments of social and political action in pursuit of self-determination for Indian tribes-the call for self-determination by the colonists in 1776 and the related call by the indigenous peoples of the continent almost two centuries later-serve as sister moments in the political development of the United States.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Tribal Moment
Chapter 2: A New Nation, Transformation, and Indian Affairs
Chapter 3: The Structuring of Indian Affairs
Chapter 4: Sovereignty Submerged
Chapter 5: Against Assimilation
Chapter 6: Transition
Chapter 7: Not Termination, but Self-Determination
Chapter 8: Sovereignty Revisited 
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

DOB: 12/14/1948
Citizenship: US