Summary Of The Round House By Louside Erdrich

In the history of America, the concept of tribal sovereignty has a point of contention for Native Americans and Indians living on the reservations. Individuals living on reservations should have the right to govern themselves without any interference with federal or state laws. The right to sovereignty for people living on reservations means that they are allowed to govern themselves and have their laws. People who do not live on reservations should not have a say in another land’s way of functioning. Tribal sovereignty is important because it allows Native Americans to establish and maintain relationships with other governments; sovereignty gives Native Americans their own cultural identity by making their own rules on their own land. These

The main cause of frustration within the reservations is the upbringing of court debates that begin around the subject of land issues, which parts of the land are being protected and governed by whom. In the novel, “The Round House” by Louside Erdrich, the reader is introduced to concepts that surround the idea of reservation law and how it functions. Erdrich uses the novel to address issues such as tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction issues. When the Natives were put on the reservation in 1851, their land was not equally distributed. Their land was marked by a significant amount of inequality and unfairness. Many of the tribes were forcibly relocated to the reservations, often in remote and undesirable locations. An example of this is, “trust land is owned by the federal government while a tribe or individual Indians possess rights to use the land.”(Crepelle) This resulted in a feeling of displacement of indigenous people from their ancestral