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American Native nations occupy a special niche in the political federal system. Could they be a model for nations elsewhere, also included in a larger system where they can figure as minorities although keeping some degree of autonomy? This article deals with the evolution of tribal sovereignty, from the time of colonization by Euro-Americans when their sovereignty was denied to their reconquest of some sovereignty in the late xxth and early xxist. century It especially deals with tribal economic activity as it leads to some political sovereignty inside the present federal political system