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MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION:
BLUEPRINT FOR A SEVEN GENERATION PLAN
by
Laura Lea Harjo
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(GEOGRAPHY)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Laura Lea Harjo
Object Description
| Title | Muscogee (Creek) Nation: blueprint for a seven generation plan |
| Author | Harjo, Laura Lea |
| Author email | lharjo@alumni.usc.edu;lauraharjo@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Geography |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-12-08 |
| Date submitted | 2012-03-05 |
| Date approved | 2012-03-05 |
| Restricted until | 2012-03-05 |
| Date published | 2012-03-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Gilmore, Ruth Wilson |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Smith, Andrea Rowe, John Carlos Curtis, Andrew J. |
| Abstract | During the last quarter of the century, federal regulation of tribes and issues of tribal self-governance shifted in ways that enabled tribes to have more autonomy over their own affairs. This shift has opened the way for tribes to exercise self-determination, a limited form of sovereignty, in the area of long-term planning for economic, political, and cultural development. There are more than 500 federally recognized tribal nations in the United States, and self-determination has been implemented unevenly across Indian Country, because, there is no one-size-fits-all. Most tribes practice some degree of planning because it is necessary for funding; however, fewer tribes are implementing very long range plans; and fewer still have created a seven-generation plan. ❧ This study is a seven-generation planning blueprint for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Because anticipating needs and accomplishments across seven generations presumes significant self-determination, the underlying work for such planning involves three primary aspects: (1) exercising radical sovereignty (2) decolonizing methods for working with the community and (3) considering the long-range desired outcomes for a community. My analysis posits three overarching aspects related to seven generation planning: the ideological, the methodological, and the practical. These three moving parts, I argue, function to dismantle something larger than each of the separate parts, and that is settler colonialism. To illustrate and deepen the argument, I present a set of community based planning processes, and a set of theses to consider when practicing tribal planning. ❧ Each nation has political, cultural, and economic specificities to consider, and planning should take these specificities into consideration. In order to assess such long-range planning for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, I complete four analyses: 1) existing tribal plans to devise an appropriate planning process for MCN; 2) socioeconomic information about MCN's 11-county jurisdictional area and political economy; 3) power relations between MCN and other actors in the Oklahoma; and 4) tribal members' values and needs. Analyzing the results of these four research steps informed and shaped the dissertation's conclusion, which is a seven-generation planning blueprint for Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The blueprint is not itself a plan but is a guide to the execution of a tribal plan. The purpose of the blueprint is to demonstrate a method to integrate unique and specific tribal values into a long-term process of radical sovereignty that deepens self-determination, economic development, and cultural preservation. |
| Keyword | decolonizing methodologies;Indigenous epistemologies; Indigenous planning; radical sovereignty; self-determination; settler colonialism; community-based; community survey |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Harjo, Laura Lea |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-HarjoLaura-481.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION: BLUEPRINT FOR A SEVEN GENERATION PLAN by Laura Lea Harjo A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (GEOGRAPHY) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Laura Lea Harjo |
