Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century
How has American Indians' participation in the broader market - as managers of casinos, negotiators of oil leases, or commercial fishermen - challenged the U.S. paradigm of economic development? Have American Indians paid a cultural price for the chance at a paycheck? How have gender and race shaped their experiences in the marketplace? Contributors to Native Pathways ponder these and other questions, highlighting how indigenous peoples have simultaneously adopted capitalist strategies and...
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Contributors to Native Pathways ponder questions about American Indians' participation in the broader market U.S. market highlighting how indigenous peoples have simultaneously adopted capitalist strategies and altered them to suit their own distinct cultural beliefs and practices. Including contributions from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, Native Pathways offers fresh viewpoints on economic change and cultural identity in twentieth-century Native American communities. Brian Hosmer is associate professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of The Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Colleen O'Neill is associate professor of history at Utah State University and associate editor of Western Historical Quarterly. Contributors David Arnold William J. Bauer Tressa Berman Jessica R. Cattelino Duane Champagne Clyde Ellis Chris Paci Lisa Krebs David LaVere Kathy M'Closkey Nicolas G. Rosenthal Paul C. Rosier Jeffrey P. Shepherd
Foreword1Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history, an introduction12Searching for salvation and sovereignty : Blackfeet oil leasing and the reconstruction of the tribe273Minding their own business : the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache business committee of the early 1900s524Casino roots : the cultural production of twentieth-century Seminole economic development665The dawn of a new day? : notes on Indian gaming in southern California916The devil's in the details : tracing the fingerprints of free trade and its effects on Navajo weavers1127"All we needed was our gardens" : women's work and welfare reform in the reservation economy1338Work and culture in southeastern Alaska : Tlingits and the salmon fisheries1569Five dollars a week to be "regular Indians" : shows, exhibitions, and the economics of Indian dancing, 1880-193018410Land, labor, and leadership : the political economy of Hualapai community building, 1910-194020911Working for identity : race, ethnicity, and the market economy in northern California, 1875-193623812Local knowledge as traditional ecological knowledge : definition and ownership26113"Dollar a day and glad to have it" : work relief on the Wind River Indian Reservation as memory28314Tribal capitalism and Native capitalists : multiple pathways of Native economy30815Conclusion330
\ From the Publisher"An important, indeed pivotal, work, which brings together Native American culture and economic theory. It should be of interest to students of Indian history and cultures as well as economists, development specialists, tribal leaders, and the business co\ \ \
