To Get Something for the People: Predicament of the American Indian Leader.

Bee, Robert L.

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Publication Date: 1979

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To Get Something for the People: Predicament of the American Indian Leader.

Bee, Robert L.

Human Organization, v38 n3 p239-47 Fall 1979

The article analyzes the ultimately unsuccessful political strategies of the tribal president of the Quechan Indians in his 1974-76 attempts to remain in office and obtain resources for his tribe, while operating within the constraints of the often contradictory expectations of tribal members and federal officials. (SB)

Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Leaders, Economic Development, Expectation, Federal Indian Relationship, Land Acquisition, Leadership, Networks, Political Influences, Political Power, Politics, Tribes

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