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The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1952 to represent the interests of the 21 tribes with lands in Arizona. [3] Many States have government offices to work with tribes with lands in their state. For example, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council works with the 11 tribes with lands in Minnesota.
The current structure of the Tribal Council evolved from earlier forms of Cherokee governance. The Cherokee Nation has a long history of representative government, dating back to the early 19th century when the tribe established a bicameral legislature in their southeastern homeland. [8]
A tribal council is an association of First Nations bands in Canada, generally along regional, ethnic or linguistic lines. [ 1 ] An Indian band , usually consisting of one main community, is the fundamental unit of government for First Nations in Canada.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...
Evolution of relationships: The evolution of the relationship between tribal governments and federal governments has been glued together through partnerships and agreements. Also running into problems of course such as finances which also led to not being able to have a stable social and political structure at the helm of these tribes or states ...
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. [1] It was founded in 1944 [3] to represent the tribes and resist U.S. federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people.
List of Alaska Native tribal entities; List of Indian reservations in the United States; List of historical Indian reservations in the United States; National Park Service Native American Heritage Sites; Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy; State recognized tribes in the United States; Category:Inuit groups
In the popular imagination, tribes reflect a primordial social structure from which all subsequent civilizations and states developed. Anthropologist Elman Service presented [ 3 ] a system of classification for societies in all human cultures, based on the evolution of social inequality and the role of the state .