Erotics of SovereigntyIn 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U. S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote the Indians sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community. In The Erotics of Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin offers a telling perspective on what such a policy of self determination has meant and looks at how