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in 1988, that is, on-reservation gambling casinos, which have since become a US$ 14 billion industry nationwide. This has been imitated in many of the respective states that still have indigenous
American tribes. The money that this generates has engendered some political scandal. For example,
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by units of the United States Army in the nineteenth century, and were also subject to forced schooling in the decades afterward. Thus, it is uncommon for today's tribes to have a purely Native
American cultural background, and today Native Americans are in many ways simply another ethnicity of the
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of Ghana are constitutionally protected by the republican constitution of the country. The chiefs serve as custodians of all traditional lands and the cultures of the traditional areas. They also serve as members of the
Ghanaian
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are politically recognized in South Africa because they derive their status, not only from tribal custom, but also from the
Traditional Leadership Clause of the country's current constitution. Some of them are members of the
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Historically, the U.S. government treated tribes as seats of political power, and made treaties with the tribes as legal entities. Be that as it may, the territory of these tribes fell under the authority of the
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A chief might be considered to hold all political power, say by oratory or by example. But on the North
American continent, it was historically possible to evade the political power of another by migration. The
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was a well-known chief of the
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were granted U.S. citizenship, and it was not until 1948 that the
Puebloans were granted the right to vote in state elections in New Mexico. In Wisconsin, the
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tribes people living in
Banuang Daan and Cabugao settlements in Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines. His position is recognized by the Filipino government.
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in "parliamentary" cultures, the war chief (may be an alternative or additional post in war time), the hereditary chief, and the politically dominant
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have a Local Court Act which empowers chiefs to deal with crimes in their communities, thus assuring them of considerable effective authority.
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as reservations held in trust for the tribes. Citizenship was formerly considered a tribal matter. For example, it was not until 1924 that the
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