Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Tribal Membership Governance and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity: Reflecting Inter-indigenous Recognition in Public Policy
2. Tribalism Constitutionalized: The Tribal Practice of Membership Governance in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States
3. Genealogy as Continuity : Explaining The Growing Tribal Preference for Descent Rules In Membership Governance in the United States
4. Reparations and Tribal Constitutionalism: The Impact of Claims-Settlement on Tribal Membership Governance in Australia and New Zealand
Conclusion
Appendix: Table of Tribal Constitutions
 

About the Author

Dr. Kirsty Gover is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School and directs the Law School's Comparative Tribal Constitutionalism Research Program. Her research and publications address the domestic and international law, policy and political theory of indigeneity and indigenous self-governance. She has worked as a senior advisor and consultant to New Zealand's Ministry of Maori Development and Ministry of Justice, on international and domestic policy on indigenous
peoples, and taught in this field at the University of Canterbury Law School.

Reviews

An important book: this is the leading scholarly account of key issues of membership and governance facing - and rocking - tribal nations in their modern rebirth as significant economic political forces.
*P.G. McHugh, Sidney Sussex College and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge*

The great virtue of this book is the way it tackles the difficult question of indigenous identity and membership in all of its complexity through a rich comparative approach. By paying attention to the changing empirical and institutional structures on the ground and the practical struggles of different indigenous political communities in four different countries, Gover is able to weave a subtle and persuasive normative argument about how best to frame ongoing debates over indigenous membership. We need to break out of the standard ways of thinking about these issues and Gover's book is a major contribution to our doing so
*Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney*

To render something visible by naming it and to theorize what is already practical, are the achievements of Gover's brilliant study.
*Tim Rowse, Journal of Law and Society*