Self-Determination : The Other Path for Native Americans

by Flanagan, Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9780804754415
• ISBN10: 0804754411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Terry L. Anderson is John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Executive Director of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), and Professor Emeritus at Montana State University. Bruce Benson is DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at Florida State University. Thomas E. Flanagan is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps	vii
Foreword	ix
About the Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(272)
DOUGLASS C. NORTH
1. False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurial Strategies	4	(25)
CRAIG S. GALBRAITH, CARLOS L. RODRIGUEZ, AND CURT H. STILES
2. Property Rights and the Buffalo Economy of the Great Plains	29	(39)
BRUCE L. BENSON
3. Native American Property Rights in the Hudson Bay Region: A Case Study of the Eighteenth-Century Cree	68	(26)
ANN M. CARLOS AND FRANK D. LEWIS
4. A Culturally Correct Proposal to Privatize the British Columbia Salmon Fishery	94	(40)
D. BRUCE JOHNSEN
5. Customary Land Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves	134	(25)
THOMAS FLANAGAN AND CHRISTOPHER ALCANTARA
6. The Wealth of Indian Nations: Economic Performance and Institutions on Reservations	159	(35)
TERRY L. ANDERSON AND DOMINIC P. PARKER
7. Sovereignty Can be a Liability: How Tribes Can Mitigate the Sovereign's Paradox	194	(60)
DAVID D. HADDOCK AND ROBERT J. MILLER
8. Indian Casinos: Another Tragedy of the Commons	254
RONALD N. JOHNSON
9. "Doing Business with the Devil": Land, Sovereignty, and Corporate Partnerships in Membertou, Inc.	242	(31)
JACQUELYN THAYER SCOTT
10. Indian Property Rights and American Federalism	273	(24)
JAMES L. HUFFMAN AND ROBERT J. MILLER
References	297	(24)
Cases Cited	321	(4)
Index	325