| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Ed. by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii, 332 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5441-5.)

Self-Determination consists of ten articles and an introduction written by sixteen academics and professionals with backgrounds that include economics, business, political science, and law. The articles range from interpretations of historical resource use of bison and beavers (not written by historians or anthropologists) to analyses of current issues including fishing rights, sovereign immunity, land use, land rights, Indian gaming, and corporate development. The editors believe that Canadian and U.S. Native Americans' "reserve lands and reservations are encumbered with a complicated variety of collective and suboptimal property rights that often get in the way of productivity and investment" and that "self-determination must become economic as well as political" (p. ix). Their intention therefore is to focus on economic "self-determination, individual ownership, investment in human and physical capital, and competitive achievement in the market-place" in the belief that "self-determination and sovereignty ... will be fruitless if they only mean the transfer of political control from Washington and Ottawa to band and tribal authorities without limits on the sovereign" (p. ix).

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