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Key Concepts & Ideas in the Development of Gov. in WA

Key Concepts & Ideas in the Development of Gov. in WA. Lecture by Chris Gall. Walla Walla Council. Reasons for: Open up land for settlement Protect Indians from white encroachment Define boundaries for Indians & Whites Problems with: Promises not kept Lack of enforcement.

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Key Concepts & Ideas in the Development of Gov. in WA

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  1. Key Concepts & Ideas in the Development of Gov. in WA Lecture by Chris Gall

  2. Walla Walla Council • Reasons for: • Open up land for settlement • Protect Indians from white encroachment • Define boundaries for Indians & Whites • Problems with: • Promises not kept • Lack of enforcement

  3. Reasons for Delayed Statehood • WA Territory Created: 1853 • WA State Created: 1898 • Low Population • Couldn’t meet the threshold • State closed to newcomers • Ongoing conflict • Yakama Wars

  4. Talk break…. • Discuss with your group the ways in which the misunderstandings about what was negotiated at the Walla Walla council might have led to delayed statehood for Washington. • 1 minute • Whip Around

  5. Tribal Sovereignty • Tribes are “domestic dependent nations” • They have the right to govern their own people and make their own laws & rules within their reservations • More independence from federal oversight than states, but less than foreign nations • Means that tribes can (and do) negotiate with states and the federal government for what they need • Have certain rights as a group that the rest of us do not have, based on treaty negotiations that occurred in the 19th century.

  6. Talk break…. • Define tribal sovereignty in your own words within your group • 1 minute • Whip Around

  7. Results, Impacts, & So Forth • Federal government provided annuities and other forms of support to reservation Indians • State government is limited in its authority on reservations • State is forced to interact on a more equal level • Tribes are allotted certain amounts of various resources, such as fish

  8. Talk break…. • What does what we’ve learned mean for the relationship between tribal government and the US government (at its various levels)? • 2 minutes • Whip Around

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