Recruitment for Employment in Federal Government

The residue of the violence done to the indigenous American culture persists into the modern period. Equally important is the fact that the principal agent of such violence was the United States government. Wiltse tracks the pattern of progressively aggressive expansion of white presence in Indian territories: "The time-honored practice had been to ply the chiefs with whiskey and when they were drunk enough to present them with treaties to sign that conveyed more thousands of acres of their hunting grounds to the white farmers" (Wiltse, 1961, p. 41). The indigenous peoples were not passive in the face of settlement and colonization, as indicated by an 1812 statement made by the chief Tecumseh.

Every year our white intruders become more exacting, oppressive, demanding, and overbearing. . . . Unless each tri

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lso be seen in the fact that renewed calls for self-determination for indigenous peoples in recent years have not relied on moral claims but on implicit and explicit mandates of international law. Further, such calls have emphasized the legitimacy of indigenous culture as the principal force shaping such self-determination. As one Indian activist puts it: If you look at all the trouble spots of the world, it's people crying out for autonomy. Everyplace in the world where there is stress, people need autonomy somehow. How to maintain your autonomy and coexist with other systems, that is the contribution we can make. We should bring our traditional values and articulate them in a contemporary way (Harris, 1990, p. 12). The presence of Native American political action does not mean that there is a unitary indigenous voice. There is evidence that today's mainstream Indian leadership, in the mode of non-Indian leadership, is "preaching the necessity of aggressively pursuing [a] strategy of accommodating tribal sovereignty and governmental decisions to forms similar to those of the dominant sovereign" (Williams, 1986, p. 284). Only in that way, so the thinking goes, can the modern Indian nations clarify their standing in the political
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