"In effect the tribes are pressing for complete independence from federal domination while retaining the maximum federal protection of the land base and services. With that goal, tribes shift back and forth to take advantage of every opportunity. The strategy has been to hit at every weak point that would yield more power to the tribe in the basic search for independence, and to surrender certain powers where it was possible to give them up without losing any momentum in the basic movement."

Vine Deloria Jr. - We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf, 1970

Quoted in: Kevin Bruyneel, The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 2007

I think I need to read more of this Vine Deloria, Jr.