"This report provides 2001 calendar year data of tribal enrollment, service population, and labor force information for the Nation's 562 federally recognized Indian tribes ... and includes several corporate and "at-large" Alaska tribal entities that were formed as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971."

"This report provides 2001 calendar year data of tribal enrollment, service population, and labor force information for the Nation's 562 federally recognized Indian tribes ...and includes several corporate and "at-large" Alaska tribal entities that were formed as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971."

Recognized tribes are increasingly prominent players in settler state governance, but in the wide-ranging debates about tribal self-governance, little has been said about tribal self-constitution. Who are the members of tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are now obliged to adopt written constitutions as a condition of recognition, and to specify the criteria used to select members. Tribal Constitutionalism presents findings from a comparative study of nearly eight hundred current and historic tribal constitutions, most of which are not in the public domain. Kirsty Gover examines the strategies adopted by tribes and states to deal with the new legal distinction between indigenous people (defined by settler governments) and tribal members (defined by tribal governments). She highlights the important fact that the two categories are imperfectly aligned. Many indigenous persons are not tribal members, and some tribal members are not legally indigenous. Should legal indigenous status be limited to persons enrolled in recognized tribes? What is to be done about the large and growing proportion of indigenous peoples who are not enrolled in a tribe, and do not live near their tribal territories? This book approaches these complex questions head-on. Using tribal membership criteria as a starting point, this book provides a critical analysis of current political and sociolegal theories of tribalism and indigeneity, and draws on legal doctrine, policy, demographic data and tribal practice to provide a comparative evaluation of tribal membership governance in the western settler states.

A Guide to Tribal Employment is a practical analysis of the law, policies, and practices used by tribal government and tribal enterprise employers. This book focuses on the application of tribal, state, and federal employment laws. Moreover, the Guide applies tribal self-determination, sovereignty, and immunity to the employment process. The Guide addresses employment disputes, unique employment issues in tribal gaming, and the unique policies used by tribal employers. The Guide’s question-answer format will help tribal administrators, human resources personnel, and tribal leadership better understand the interesting and important questions relating to tribal employment.