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Planning the American Indian Reservation
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. InPlanning 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 thenature 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.
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Tribal Nations, Local Governments, and Regional Pluralism in Washington State: The Swinomish Approach in the Skagit Valley
This article reviews the events that led to improved regional cooperation in land use planning in the Skagit Valley region of Washington State. When the Swinomish Indian Tribe realized that it could not successfully achieve its community development goals in isolation from the surrounding political region, its approach was to bridge relations with surrounding communities by entering into cooperative agreements. The result was to pave the way for a new form of political pluralism in the region that would advance tribal interests and help to achieve Washington's growth management goal for consistency in regional planning. The article concludes with lessons that can be applied to other regions that face similar opposing interests in the development of coordinated land use policy.
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Planning the Native American Tribal Community: Understanding the Basis of Power Controlling the Reservation Territory
Native American tribes possess sovereign powers of self-government over their internal affairs and over their self-reserved territories, in order to support their continued existence. The powers of tribal land use jurisdiction, however, are not clearly understood. This paper explores the evolution of tribal governance and the problems that tribes face in advancing their community goals through reservation planning. The context of tribal planning is examined with the practical aim of formulating approaches that overcome obstacles to attaining tribal objectives. It is necessary to understand the historical interferences confronting tribal communities before identifying planning strategies to overcome opposition and advance tribal goals.
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