Brad A. Bays is associate professor of geography at Oklahoma State University. Erin Hogan Fouberg is assistant professor of geography at Mary Washington College.

A recently published collection of essays, The Tribes and the States: Geographies of Intergovernmental Interaction, sheds a great deal of light on this subject and provides an excellent resource base on related issues. We congratulate the emerging crop of scholars—both Native and non-Native—who are delving deeply and seriously into these dynamics. They have provided Indian country with a valuable resource tool that should be studied by Native leaders and opinion-makers everywhere.

• Chapter 1 Tribal-State Affairs: American States as "Disclaiming" SovereignsChapter 2 Kansas and the Exodus of the Miami TribeChapter 3 Jurisdiction in South Dakota: Diminishment and the Question of Indian CharacterChapter 4 Tribes and States: A New Era in Intergovernmental AffairsChapter 5 The Struggle over the Geographic Expansion of Indian GamingChapter 6 Tribes, States, the EPA, and the Territorial Politics of Environmental ProtectionChapter 7 State and Tribal Relations in Transportation: A Washington Case StudyChapter 8 Dividing the Waters: Cooperative Management and the Allocation of Pacific SalmonChapter 9 Tribal-State Tobacco Compacts and Motor Fuel Contracts in Oklahoma