"The Legal Effect of the Judgment": Indian Land Claims, Ecological Anthropology, Social Impact Assessment, and the Public Domain

The legal, cultural, and ecological issues surrounding Western Shoshone Indians' claim to and use of the public domain in Nevada are examined through discussion of three cases of contested uses: plans for a mine in a proposed World Heritage Site; plans for a dam at a sacred site; and economic u...

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Published in:Human organization 2004-10, Vol.63 (3), p.334-345
Main Author: Clemmer, Richard O.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation, contemporary social changes. (cultural action - rights of indigenous peoples )
American Indians
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Collaboration
Cultural anthropology
Cultural heritage
Dams
Decision making
Ecology
Eminent domain
Environmental assessment
Environmental economics
Environmental stewardship
Ethnology
Holy places
Human ecology
Impact analysis
Indians
Indigenous populations
Indigenous rights
Judgment
Land Ownership
Land reclamation
Land Use
Native Americans
Native North Americans
Nevada
North America
Political ecology
Politics
Public domain
Public property
Public spaces
Quarries
Religion
Sacredness
Shoshone
Social anthropology
Social impact
Stakeholders
Treaties
Treaty lands
Tribal land
U.S.A
Uto-Aztecan languages
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Summary:The legal, cultural, and ecological issues surrounding Western Shoshone Indians' claim to and use of the public domain in Nevada are examined through discussion of three cases of contested uses: plans for a mine in a proposed World Heritage Site; plans for a dam at a sacred site; and economic use of the public domain for stock grazing by a Western Shoshone family. Results of a research project aimed at documenting historic and contemporary uses of the area as well as Shoshone land claims reveal a challenge for anthropologists and other social scientists to include the political impact of institutional power on ecosystems in environmental studies.
ISSN:0018-7259
1938-3525
DOI:10.17730/humo.63.3.n4x236elb0xeh22m