Native American Rights, Federal Government Plenary Power and Land Takin

natural American Rights, Federal Government Plenary Power and destroy TakingsAbstractNative Americans are entitled to the same ingrained protections that guard other citizens from national government infringement. Plenary power and the successive seizure and use of indigenous land bases have violated the rights of Native Americans and demonstrated the inability of the federal government to manage Indian affairs. The unite States should give ownership and control of original, non-privately owned land bases back to tribes. This charge of action would end treaty violation, compensate tribes for land takings, prevent bureaucrats from implementing policies that jam the ability of Native Americans to participate in their religion, and prevent the serious heathenish loss that may occur if the government continues to use Native American land for self-interested purposes. Although the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 formally made Native Americans joined States citizens, Native Ameri cans currently lack the legal protection that guards other citizens from federal domination (Custo and Henry X). The core democratic concepts of fairness, justice, and consent of the governed have non yet been fully realized for tribal people, despite their citizenship (Wilkins 20). As state by Helen Hunt Jackson, a noted author and social reformer, interference of Native Americans has outraged principles of justice (Custo and Henry 40). Native Americans, wards of the federal government, are locked in a grossly inequitable, politically dependent relationship, in which political infringement and injustice are the norm. (Williams 27). The current policy of federal plenary power over Indian tribes and the confiscation and desecration of I... ...iverse. (21 Jan. 2001).Martin v. Waddell. 41 U.S. 367. U.S. haughty Court. 1842. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. (21 Jan 2001).Northrup, Jim. Rez Road Follies. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1997.Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold mental reservation v. United States. 419 U.S. 901. No. 73-2062. U.S. Supreme Court. 1974. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. (20 Jan. 2001).Wilkins, David. American Indian reign and the U.S. Supreme Court The Masking of Justice. Austin University of Texas Press, 1997.Wood, Mary. Protecting the Attributes of Native sovereignty A newborn Trust Paradigm for Federal Actions Affecting tribal Land and Resources. Utah Law Review (1995). LEXIS NEXIS Academic Universe. 8 Jan. 2001.Wunder, John. kept up(p) by the People A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights. New York Oxford University Press, 1994.