摘要：The abuse of Native American populations and the injustices of fed eral Indian policy have been well documented. Using the concept of distributive justice to frame the analysis, this article addresses five major Indian land-policy initiatives promulgated to “help” post-con quest indigenous populations, some of the equity arguments used to rationalize them, and their effects on land ownership and terrestrial resources in the Yurok Indian Reservation of northern California. This article then examines the treatment of Yurok land tenure and natural resources over the last 150 years as an indicator of how equi table these policies turned out to be. Maps of land claims and owner ship are a graphic representation of the impacts of Indian land-policy initiatives. The cumulative result is an ecological legacy of land frag mentation and loss of indigenous ecosystems that will continue to constrain access to economically and culturally significant resources now and in the future, creating an unprecedented terrain for tribal and ecological restoration. Lastly, this article argues that natural re sources decision-making should consider the rights of the few as well as the good of the many and incorporate ecological sustainability as part of a multidimensional framework for assessing equity that in cludes tribal rights on ancestral lands and the goal of distributive justice.
