Planning the American Indian Reservation: From Theory to Empowerment
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American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy actions, it is also one of the most imperative. For centuries tribes have faced historical bigotry, political violence, and an unrelenting resistance to self-governance. Aided by a comprehensive reservation planning strategy, tribes can create the community they envisioned for themselves, independent of outside forces. In Planning the American Indian Reservation, Zaferatos presents a holistic and practical approach to explaining the practice of Native American planning. The book unveils the complex conditions that tribes face by examining the historic, political, legal, and theoretical dimensions of the tribal planning situation in order to elucidate the context within which reservation planning occurs. Drawing on more than thirty years of professional practice, Zaferatos presents several case studies demonstrating how effective tribal planning can alter the nature of the political landscape and help to rebalance the uneven relationships that have been formed between tribal governments and their nontribal political counterparts. Tribal planning’s overarching objective is to assist tribes as they transition from passive objects of historical circumstances to principal actors in shaping their future reservation communities.
Publisher : Syracuse University Press; Reprint edition (August 24, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 376 pages
ISBN-10 : 0815635427
ISBN-13 : 978-0815635420
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Sean –
American Indian Planning
I highly recommend this book for individuals that are interested in, or already in the planning of a reservation. Thorough analysis of past actions and policies.
M. Heiss –
Government cheese is the best cheese around
This book is an exercise in eating the government cheese.Training Indians to be passive, easily led Marxist morons, rather than creative and prosperous individuals does not serve the Indians well. But Zaferatos can boast about expanding the government cheese available to his Indians from a small office of 8 in 1980, to hundreds of “planners” twenty years later.After all, there’s only one way to be a good Indian. Zaferatos will show you the way to dependence and poverty. have some more cheese.