John Caldbick, Aline Castañeda Cadena
Volume 21, Number 1 (2021) 21 (1): 1-21
Keywords Tribal Governance; Self-Determination; Indigenous Rights; Treaty of Olympia; Boldt Decision, Quinault Indian Nation; Tribal Sovereignty; Joe DeLaCruz, Native American leadership role; Legal battles for fishing rights; Cronyism in Tribal Leadership, Tribal Governance, Self- determination, Indigenous Rights, Quinault Indian Nation, Tribal Sovereignty, Joe DeLaCruz, Native American Leadership Role, Legal Battles for Fishing Rights, Cronyism in Tribal Leadership
Abstract
FWJ Editor in Chief: In 1979 Quinault President Joe DeLaCruz called the Indian Leaders of nations to a Conference of Tribal Governments in Tumwater, Washington (USA) to formulate new policies by the governments to advance self-government. As the Executive Director of the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington in that year I had the honor of working with Joe to organize and convene the Conference. President DeLaCruz saw self-determination for his nation and the nations of the world as the critical political advancement for peoples who had been colonized against their will during the generations. President DeLaCruz was joined in the Conference of Tribal Governments by leaders of the Lummi Nation Chairman Sam Cagey, Squaxin Island Chairman Calvin Peters, Chairman Cliff Keline, Muckleshoot Tribe Colville Confederated Tribes Chairman Mel Tonasket, Snohomish Chairwoman of the Small Tribes
Organization of Western Washington Kathleen Bishop, Yakama Nation Chairman Roger Jim and other leaders of all thirty-three nations located in the US State of Washington. We at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and the Fourth World Journal celebrate President Joseph B. DeLaCruz and the Conference of Tribal Governments as the founding event that created our
organization.
We are pleased to reprint the article that follows originally written by John Caldbick and distributed under the Creative Commons by HistoryLink.org Essay 9877 on 27 July 2011.
John Caldbick
Aline Castañeda Cadena
Published June 1, 2021
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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