American Indian Politics & the American Political System (Paperback, 2006) 2ND EDITION

by David E. Wilkins

American Indian Politics And the American Political System 2nd edition by David E. Wilkins. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc,2006

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

Unknown Binding

First published August 23, 2001

Reviews

[Matt Sautman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wilkins work reads more like a textbook than as an academic text written for other academics. As a result, American Indian Politics and the American Political System at times reads like a survey of Native American political history. For someone who does not have as much knowledge of this history as they feel that they should, this makes for a useful resource, but the text doesn’t carry the intellectual charge as work that more explicitly engages with postcolonial/decolonial theory.

[Michelle Boyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good overview for those beginning with American Indian politics, the history of federal Indian law, etc. I was given this book back in 2011 when I first began studying American Indians. It serves to spark and interest and briefly begins to explain things to those just entering Federal Indian law--or those that are just curious. I would recommend it for beginners, but eventually you will need to branch out to case specific studies.

[Mills College Library]

323.1197 W684a 2011

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

The organization of the chapters is a little weird (both the order of the chapters and sections within them), but otherwise a clear and fairly
comprehensive overview of a complicated topic.