| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975–1993. By George Pierre Castile. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. 164 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

This brief volume continues Castile's analysis of federal Indian policy creation in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here he examines the career of the self-determination policy under the Carter, Reagan, and G. H. W. Bush administrations. Under this policy, tribes may contract for the social services traditionally provided by the BIA, thus taking these under Native priorities and administration. This practice increases the power of tribal councils, so long toothless under the limitations of the Indian Reorganization Act, but also raises the theoretical contradiction of professed sovereign regimes fiscally dependent on federal budgeting and the practical problems of tribal patronage and infighting.

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