| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xv + 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

This interesting book provides material for demonstrating the internal contradictions of the "property rights" approach to analysis of American Indian economies. The authors generalize from the evidence of individual property rights in personal property to assert a general pattern of the use of the institution; but they also show how problems of enforcing group property rights existed with the expansion of the settlers' economy. For the editors, economics is the story of the struggle between the sovereign and the individual; intermediate levels of collective action are not stressed. But as careful researchers and historians, chapter authors present evidence that often does not fit the paradigm. They utilize the useful parts of the property rights approach and downplay the grander themes promoted by the editors of the volume.

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