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  • Nixon let tribes control own futures

    Gary Fife, Muskogee Nation News|Updated Sep 23, 2012

    TULSA, OK—Tribes across the nation have been exercising inherent governmental powers since the 1970s. Nowadays, tribal sovereignty and self-determination are considered a part of everyday business. But, when did tribes start really using their governmental powers and who helped this government-to-government relationship develop? He is best remembered for political spying during the Watergate scandals of the early 1970s, but U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and his a...