Description:
Compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Canadian and US Native American policy. This book examines 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 in resource-use decisions.
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