Self-determination : the other path for Native Americans / edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Terry L. (Terry Lee), 1946-

Benson, Bruce L., 1949-

Flanagan, Thomas, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Economic conditions.

Indians of North America--Land tenure.

Indian business enterprises--North America.

Land tenure--Government policy--North America.

Right of property--North America.

Self-determination, National--North America.

Self-determination, National.

Right of property.

Land tenure--Government policy.

Land tenure.

Indian business enterprises.

North America.

Physical Description:

xv, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Native American policy in Canada and the United States. 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Douglass C. North

False myths and indigenous entrepreneurial strategies / Craig S. Galbraith, Carlos L. Rodriguez, and Curt H. Stiles

Property rights and the buffalo economy of the Great Plains / Bruce L. Benson

Native American property rights in the Hudson Bay Region : a case study of the eighteenth-century Cree / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis

A culturally correct proposal to privatize the British Columbia salmon fishery / D. Bruce Johnsen

Customary land rights on Canadian Indian reserves / Thomas Flanagan and Christopher Alcantara

The wealth of Indian nations : economic performance and institutions on reservations / Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker

Sovereignty can be a liability : how tribes can mitigate the sovereign's paradox / David D. Haddock and Robert J. Miller

Indian casinos : another tragedy of the commons / Ronald N. Johnson

"Doing business with the devil" : land, sovereignty and corporate partnerships in Membertou, Inc. / Jacquelyn Thayer Scott

Indian property rights and American federalism / James L. Huffman and Robert J. Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0804754411

OCLC:

64595842

Publisher Number:

9780804754415