Tribal Governance Southwest

Kendrick Many Goats (Diné/Navajo)

• Context: Scholar/activist on Indigenous economy and governance (sources limited; user-provided reference).
• Insight: Include when discussing community-based economic models, traditional livelihoods, or Diné perspectives on development.
• Use for: Community economy, traditional practices, governance from the ground up

George Manuel (Secwépemc, 1921–1989)

• Key work: The Fourth World: An Indian Reality (1974, with Michael Posluns)
• Context: President, National Indian Brotherhood (1970–76); founded World Council of Indigenous Peoples; opposed Trudeau's 1969 White Paper; pioneered UNDRIP
• Insight: Fourth World — Indigenous peoples as nations within colonial states. "We own those places. They are ours. You are squatters." Treaties, title, compensation. Indigenous survival as nations and cultures.
• Use for: Sovereignty, treaty rights, land title, assimilation vs. self-determination, international Indigenous solidarity

Integration Rules

1. Plain language: One thinker per paragraph max; explain the insight.
2. Pattern: Curley argues that coal development was a form of sovereignty... or Manuel's Fourth World...
3. Match theme to thinker:
   • Energy/coal/renewables → Curley
   • Development desires, land → Lister
   • Sovereignty, treaties, Fourth World → Manuel
   • Community economy → Many Goats (when applicable)

Stat Mapping

Node Structure

Use DecisionBlock[] with createLongFormTree. Support branching via nextBlock and endingIndex. See plurinational-path.ts and gulf-migrant.ts.

Southwest Context

• Gaming (IGRA), energy (coal, renewables), federal contracts, tourism, agriculture
• BIA, federal trust relationship, PL-280, self-determination contracts
• Water rights, land tenure, grazing, mineral leases
• Urban relocation, poverty, health disparities, language revitalisation

Anti-Patterns

• Don't treat tribes as monolithic; show internal debate.
• Sovereignty is ongoing negotiation, not fixed status.
• Development and sovereignty can align or conflict — show the tension.