| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. xiv, 354 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-87081-774-4. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-87081-775-2.)
Federal policy makers and "development" experts have steadfastly insisted that Native American cultural assimilation follows from heavy-handed manipulation of the tribes' economic bases. And Native cultures have in fact adjusted. But they have not assimilated. Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill have edited an important collection of essays that examines this dynamic.	1
The book's major theme is that imposed (and voluntary) economic changes often have strengthened, not erased, Native cultural identity. An important contributing factor to this result is a second theme: Natives have integrated work and economic development with other components of their own distinctive world views such as kinship or spirituality. Against developers' intentions, the Indians have linked imposed economics and indigenous culture— after stripping away much of "development's" Western cultural baggage.	. . .

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