Self-determination
Subtitle: the other path for Native Americans
By: edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan.
Contributors: Anderson, Terry Lee, 1946-; Benson, Bruce, 1949-; Flanagan, Thomas, 1944-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780804754415
Subjects: 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
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 Canadas First Nations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  / Douglass C. North; title: False myths and indigenous entrepreneurial strategies / Craig S. Galbraith, Carlos L. Rodriguez, and Curt H. Stiles; title: Property rights and the buffalo economy of the Great Plains / Bruce L. Benson; title: Native American property rights in the Hudson Bay Region : a case study of the eighteenth-century Cree / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis; title: A culturally correct proposal to privatize the British Columbia salmon fishery / D. Bruce Johnsen; title: Customary land rights on Canadian Indian reserves / Thomas Flanagan and Christopher Alcantara; title: The wealth of Indian nations : economic performance and institutions on reservations / Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker; title: Sovereignty can be a liability : how tribes can mitigate the sovereign's paradox / David D. Haddock and Robert J. Miller; title: Indian casinos : another tragedy of the commons / Ronald N. Johnson; title: "Doing business with the devil" : land, sovereignty and corporate partnerships in Membertou, Inc. / Jacquelyn Thayer Scott; title: Indian property rights and American federalism / James L. Huffman and Robert J. Miller.