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L ate-twentieth-century Native America presents the same conflicts as the late eighteenth century: land and water rights, hunting and fishing, religious freedom, criminal and civil jurisdiction. In fact, these conflicts are typical of relations between indigenous peoples and colonizers on the American continent as a whole beginning more than five centuries ago. Occasional "hot spots" receive wide attention-Anishinaabe fishing in Wisconsin, Puyallup fishing in Washington, the Black Hills in the Dakotas, Yucca Mountain in Western Shoshone territory, Big Mountain in Navajo and Hopi territory, Venetie Village in Alaska, Mohawk communities on the New York-Canadian border. These are heightened ex3 amples of continual and widespread political conflict involving Native > Americans in America. It is likely there is no region of America at any given time not facing at least one Native issue in more than one venue, including subsistence rights, grave desecration and repatriation, child and family custody matters, and sports mascot and other commercial uses of 7 7 Native names and images. It may appear that the last issue is wholly "modern," with no precedent in early history, but sports mascots are contemporary manifestations of what appeared in colonial fund-raising: the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company circulated in English churches cartoon images of a Native American holding out his hands and saying, "Come over and help us."' This was the official seal of the |
