Native Pathways

Brian Hosmer is associate professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of The Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Colleen O'Neill is associate professor of history at Utah State University and associate editor of Western Historical Quarterly.

"Federal policy makers and 'development' experts have steadfastly insisted that Native American cultural assimilation follows from heavy-handed manipulation of the tribes' economic bases. And Native cultures have in fact adjusted. But they have not assimilated. Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill have edited an important collection of essays that examines this dynamic. The book's major theme is that imposed (and voluntary) economic changes often have strengthened, not erased, Native cultural identity. An important contributing factor to this result is a second theme: Natives have integrated work and economic development with other components of their own distinctive world views such as kinship and spirituality. . . . This anthology is clearly important for scholars of Native American life. Beyond that, it should be required reading for any nonacademics involved in Native 'development' and its policy infrastructure."—The Journal of American History

• CONTENTS Foreword Donald L. Fixico Acknowledgements 1. Rethinking Modernity and the Discourse of Development in American Indian History, an Introduction Colleen O'Neill Part I: Commerce and Incorporation 2. Searching for Salvation and Sovereignty: The Cultural Economy of Blackfeet Oil Leasing, 1914-1955 Paul C. Rosier 3. The Comanche-Kiowa Business Council of the Early 1900s David LaVere 4. Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminole Economic Development Jessica R. Cattelino 5. The Dawning of a New Day? Notes on Indian Gaming in Southern California Nicolas G. Rosenthal 6. The Devil's in the Details: Tracing the Fingerprints of Free Trade and its Effects on Navajo Weavers Kathy M'Closkey Part II: Wage Work "All we needed was our gardens": Women's work and welfare reform in the reservation economy Tressa Berman 7. Work and Culture in Southeastern Alaska: Tlingit Indians and the Industrial Fisheries, 1880-1940 David Arnold 8. Five Dollars a Week to Be a 'Regular Indian': Shows, Exhibitions, and the Economics of Indian Dancing, 1880-1930 Clyde Ellis 9. Land, Labor and Leadership: The Political Economy of Hualapai Community Building, 1910-1940 Jeffrey P. Shepherd 10. Working for Identity: Race, Ethnicity and the Market Economy in Northern California, 1875-1936 William Bauer Part III: Methodology and Theoretical Implications 11. Local Knowledge as Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Definition and Ownership Chris Paci and Lisa Krebs 12. Work Relief on the Wind River Indian Reservation: An Exploration into Cultural Identity, Social Memory, and Economic Change Brian Hosmer 13. Tribal Capitalism and Native Capitalists: Multiple Pathways of Native Economy Duane Champagne 14. Conclusion Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill Contributors Index