Abstract

Part 1 The analytical framework: introductionk, Terry L. Anderson exchange, sovereignty and Indian-Anglo relations, Jennifer Roback. Part 2 Property rights in Indian history: customary Indian law - two case studies, Bruce L. Benson property as the basis of inuit hunting rights, Peter Usher learning to farm - Indian land tenure and farming before the Dawes, Leonard Carlson. Part 3 The political economy of Indian policy: a congressional theory of Indian property rights - the Cherokee outlet, Lee J. Alston and Pablo T. Spiller government as definer of property rights - Indian lands, ethnic externalities and bureaucratic budgets, Fred S. McChesney. Part 4 Property rights and economic development: economic development and land tenure in Indian country, Terry L. Anderson and Dean Lueck water rights claims in Indian country - from legal theory to economic reality, Rodney Smith. Part 5 Cultural and constitutional constraints: economic culture, institutional order and sustained market enterprise - comparisons of historical and contemporary American Indian cases, Duane Champagne culture and institutions as public goods - American Indian economic development as a problem of collective action, Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt.

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