Title: The Political economy of North American Indians /
Authors: Moore, John H., 1939-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Indians of North America Great Plains Economic conditions Congresses.; Indians of North America Great Plains Politics and government Congresses.; Indians of North America Great Plains History Congresses.; Economic anthropology Great Plains Congresses.; Subsistence economy Great Plains Congresses.; Indians of North America Great Plains Economic conditions.; Indians of North America Great Plains Politics and government.; Indians of North America Great Plains History.; Economic anthropology Great Plains.; Subsistence economy Great Plains.; Great Plains Economic conditions Congresses.; Great Plains Economic conditions.
Abstract: "This innovative collection of articles approaches American Indian history and culture from a Marxist perspective. The contributors, from the United States and Canada, have jumped the boundaries among the social sciences to consider issues of macroeconomics and intercultural conflict. The result is a stimulating and substantial contribution that will interest any reader concerned with policy affecting North American Indians." "The contributors are particularly attentive to process and change. They show the relationships among the historical periods characterized by the fur trade, land cessions, and the reservation education system. They expose the collusion among agencies of the dominant society and how Indian people reacted, reorganizing themselves and their institutions to face every new, changed situation."--Jacket.
Contents: Political economy in anthropology / John H. Moore -- The political economy of Lakota consciousness / Thomas Biolsi -- Learning to labor / Alice Littlefield / Health patterns and economic underdevelopment on the northern Cheyenne Reservation, 1910-1920 / Gregory R. Campbell -- Natives and the development of mercantile capitalism / Bruce Alden Cox -- Symbiosis, merger, and war / Patricia C. Albers -- Political economy of the buffalo hide trade / Alan M. Klein -- The quest for Indian development in Canada / J.S. Frideres -- Autonomy and constraint / Max J. Hedley -- Multinational corporate development in the American Hinterland / Sandra Faiman-Silva -- How giveaways and pow-wows redistribute the means of subsistence / John H. Moore -- Native North Ameicans and the national question / George P. Castile.