What is the current situation of Indigenous people in the US economically and politically?
Decolonization is a difficult and long-term task for Indigenous peoples in North America, no less than for the peoples of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, with advances and setbacks, and uneven results. Politically, the current situation is better than it has been since the onset of colonization, and that is due to the post-World War II surge of a permanent resistance to colonialism. The best account of the foundation for that movement is historian Daniel Cobb’s Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty. As in the colonized world in general, sovereignty is the essential element without which nothing else is possible. The Pan-Indian movement, most identified with the American Indian Movement (AIM), rose out of the ferment of the 1960s militant movements and led to a pan-Indigenous movement, with notable advances in international law protection of Indigenous rights and limits on states’ sovereignty. This in turn unloosed an unparalleled
