Abstract
Recent approaches to problems facing Native American reservation economies address practical solutions to the severe poverty and associated socioeconomic ills while recognizing cultural and sovereignty issues as opposed to simply listing the historical causes of these issues. This paper integrates some of the work completed in the last decade in order to understand the feasibility and processes of sustained economic development on Naive American reservations. Understanding development as a process, rather than a black or white phenomenon, leaves the planner with an optimistic vantage point on the possibilities of success. It is this process orientation that holds the focal point of this paper. Using the Rosebud Sioux Reservation as an exemplar, Jacobs’s (1984) model provides a paradigm for the development process. Understanding the model puts us in a position to fully understand the development possibilities in Indian country as well as the problematic aspects.
Highlights
Recent approaches to problems facing Native American reservation economies address practical solutions to the severe poverty and associated socioeconomic ills while recognizing cultural and sovereignty issues as opposed to listing the historical causes of these issues
This paper integrates some of the work completed in the last decade with interviews with various tribal leaders in order to understand the feasibility and processes of sustained economic development on Native American reservations
The paper begins with a discussion of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and an outline of a proposed set of development projects as discussed in Diamant (1988)
Summary
This paper integrate~ ICIIIle of the work completed in the lut decade in order to undentand the feuibility and processes of sustained economic development on Naive Americm reservations. Leaves the planner with an optimiiDc vantqe point on the possibilities of success. Undcntmding development u a process, rather than a blaclt or white phenomenon. It is this pocess orientation that holds the focal point of this paper. Using the Rosebud Sioux Reservation as an exemplar, JICObs's (1984) model provides a paradigm for the development process. Understanding the model puts us in a position to fully understand the develoJXnent possibilities in Indian country as well as the problematic aspects
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