Self-determination : the other path for Native Americans
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 Canadas First Nations
eBook, English, ©2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., ©2006
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1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) : illustrations, map
9780804754415, 0804754411
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Introduction / by Douglass North
False myths and indigenous entrepreneurial strategies / by Craig S. Galbraith, Carlos L. Rodriguez, and Curt H. Stiles
Property rights and the buffalo economy of the Great Plains / by Bruce L. Benson
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
A culturally correct proposal to privatize the British Columbia salmon fishery / by D. Bruce Johnsen
Customary land rights on Canadian Indian reserves / by Thomas E. Flanagan and Christopher Alcantara
The wealth of Indian nations : economic performance and institutions on reservations / by Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker
Sovereignty can be a liability : how tribes can mitigate the sovereign's paradox / by David D. Haddock and Robert J. Miller
Indian casinos : another tragedy of the commons / by Ronald N. Johnson
"Doing business with the devil" : land, sovereignty and corporate partnerships in Membertou, Inc. / by Jacqueline Thayer Scott
Indian property rights and American federalism / by James L. Huffman and Robert J. Miller
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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