The article is about the issue of Native Politics also that they talk about Indian peoples who are engaged in politics on many levels. They are citizens of the United States, as well as of their own individual tribes, bands, or communities. The term nation is most often used to underscore the sovereignty of Indian peoples. When referring to one's tribe, it is common to say "the Nation." Indeed, the tribes continue to exist as "nations within a nation." This right to self-government has been guaranteed by centuries of United States Indian law. Natives find themselves with many identities. One may be Pawnee, for example, and also American—with allegiance and obligations to both nations. Native people are also residents of the states in which they live and much of the political struggle over sovereignty today involves resisting attempted state inroads on the rights of tribal people to be self-governing. The majority of modern Indian peoples do not live on a reservation. Rather they have made their homes elsewhere in the United States. They continue to be Indian, an ethnic and cultural identity that can be difficult to maintain while living as minority groups within American society. Thus the sovereignty of tribal governments is important to these people as well.

Welch, Deborah. “Indian Political Issues Overview.” Political Issues, Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2019. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=190552. Accessed 16 Dec. 2021.

The article “Off the reservation; Lexington,” is about the progress that Native Americans took the politicians seriously. It was the midterm election when Donald Trump was in office. It is also when two Native American women were elected to Congress for the first time. Native Americans were so proud. Deb Haaland said, "Representation matters. And if you disagree, try not being represented for over 200 years and then see how it feels to have someone who looks like you in Congress!" The article also stated that “According to a count by Mark Trahant of the website Indian Country Today, 103 native candidates ran for office in the midterms. At least 60 won.” It was mostly Democrats that won as candidates. Only 70% percent of the Native American live in cities and they are educated Native Middle-Class has emerged. Some of the progress is driven by Native Casino which also helped fund Ms. Haaland´s campaign. Native American still represent less than 2% of the population. None of the candidates for national and statewide office made much of their Nativeness on the trail. It helped Ms Haaland win a tough primary, but mainly because white liberals in Albuquerque wanted to send a native woman to Congress. The fact that New Mexico was the last state to give Indians the vote in 1962.

"Off the reservation; Lexington." The Economist, vol. 429, no. 9120, 1 Dec. 2018, p. 26(US). Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A563730626/AONE?u=nm_p_elportal&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=8d2b81dc. Accessed 17 Nov. 2021.

This video is about when they celebrated the win of Deb Haaland of becoming Secretary of the Interior because of her and another woman who is also Native American in Kansas. Deb Haaland is from New Mexico and she is from the Pueblo of Laguna. She was really happy that she became the first woman in Congress as Native American. She talks about how hard the struggle she had gone through along the way because she mentioned that she had people who didn't believe in her or doubt her. But she said that they were afraid to say it in front of her face and she told about her struggle that Natives go through like drinking is the main one because she went through that path but now she is 30 years sober. She was telling me that she's happy that she has another person with her by her side too. Like having someone that looks like her as a Native way because there's are the only Native women to ever serve as Native Congresswomen. She also can't wait for more to come because they will be able to speak out the truth of what Native go through like struggle to get food and being Native.

First Native American Congresswoman Deb Haaland Talks Centuries of Progress | Sunday TODAY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viBLTbdwjks, Accessed on January 18, 2022.

In this article “The Rise of Self-Determination Policy” it talks about in the 1960’s it was the era known as Self Determination. The Native Americans were to refer to the movement to restore control on tribal governments and education, renew culture and communities. It was during a time when former President John F Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson were in office. Also that they were the ones who democratic coalition of minority groups, bringing people together for civil rights. When Johnson was in office the federal policies turned towards redistributing federal taxes and the wealth that included the policy to encourage the civil rights for greater opportunity. While I was reading it was talking about that they were barely talking about Native policy and issues that tribal leaders were not that active in the Democratic movement or even the Policy development of the Great Society programs. In the early 1960’s the federal administration in Indian Country was finally managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. By the late 1960s and 1970s, tribal governments received funds from a variety of federal agencies for housing, education, police, and tribal court administration.

Champagne, Duane. "The Rise of Self-Determination Policy ." The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience, ABC-CLIO, 2022, americanindian-abc-clio-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/Topics/Display/1521909?cid=41&sid=1521909. Accessed 17 Feb. 2022.