19.3 Indigenous Agency and Rights

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

• Explain the significance of Indigenous peoples being declared “domestic dependent nations” in the United States.
• Discuss Indigenous rights to natural resources and the degree to which Native nations have been successful in asserting these rights.
• Describe some traditional techniques used by Indigenous peoples to create cultural objects as well as efforts to restore this knowledge.
• Articulate two features of Indigenous philosophies and worldviews and explain how researchers access Indigenous philosophies and worldviews.
• Describe political responses to federal government policies pertaining to Indigenous peoples in the United States.
• Articulate Indigenous critiques of the use of Indigenous names and images as mascots for sports teams.