Project
Conference Presentation Award
Native Rights Advocates Confront the Cold War West
In the wake of World War II and with the onset of decolonization and the Cold War, the United States embarked on a mission to "modernize" the economies and cultures of the so-called "developing nations" of the "Third World." Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Native rights advocates seized upon the language of modernization, nation building, and decolonization to advance a model for federal-Indian relations predicated on the ideas of tribal sovereignty and self-determination.
Location
Finland