Self-determination : the other path for Native Americans
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Self-determination : the other path for Native Americans
Stanford University Press, 2006
- : cloth
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-320) and index
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Description
This book compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Canadian and U.S. Native American policy. The contributors include economists, political scientists, and lawyers, who, despite analyzing a number of different groups in several eras, consistently take a political economy approach to the issues. Using this framework, the authors examine the evolution of property rights, from wildlife in pre-Columbian times and the potential for using property rights to resolve contemporary fish and wildlife issues, to the importance of customs and culture to resource use decisions; the competition from states for Native American casino revenues; and the impact of sovereignty on economic development. In each case, the chapters present new data and new ways of thinking about old evidence. In addition to providing a framework for analysis and new data, this book suggests how Native American and First Nation policy might be reformed toward the end of sustainable economic development, cultural integrity, and self-determination. For these reasons, the book should be of interest to scholars, policy analysts, and students of Native American law, economics, and resource use, as well as those interested in the history of Native Americans and Canada's First Nations.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Tables, Figures, and Maps Foreword Introduction by Douglass North 1 False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurial Strategies by Craig S. Galbraith, Carlos L. Rodriguez, and Curt H. Stiles 2 Property Rights and the Buffalo Economy of the Great Plains by Bruce L. Benson 3 Native American Property Rights in the Hudson Bay Region: A Case Study of the Eighteenth-Century Cree by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis 4 A Culturally Correct Proposal to Privatize the British Columbia Salmon Fishery by D. Bruce Johnsen 5 Customary Land Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves by Thomas E. Flanagan and Christopher Alcantara 6 The Wealth of Indian Nations: Economic Performance and Institutions on Reservations by Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker 7 Sovereignty Can Be a Liability: How Tribes Can Mitigate the Sovereign's Paradox by David D. Haddock and Robert J. Miller 8 Indian Casinos: Another Tragedy of the Commons by Ronald N. Johnson 9 "Doing Business with the Devil": Land, Sovereignty and Corporate Partnerships in Membertou, Inc. by Jacqueline Thayer Scott 10 Indian Property Rights and American Federalism by James L. Huffman and Robert J. Miller References Cases Cited About the Contributing Authors Index
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