Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Chapter one Rethinking Modernity and the Discourse of Development in American Indian History, an Introduction 1
6. Part One Commerce and Incorporation
7. Chapter Two Searching for Salvation and Sovereignty: Blackfeet Oil Leasing and the Reconstruction of the Tribe 27
8. Chapter three Minding Their Own Business: The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Business Committee of the Early 1900s 52
9. Chapter Four Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminole Economic Development 66
10. Chapter Five The Dawn of a New Day? Notes on Indian Gaming in Southern California 91
11. Chapter Six The Devil’s in the Details: Tracing the Fingerprints of Free Trade and Its Effects on Navajo Weavers 112
12. Part Two Wage Work
13. Chapter Seven “All We Needed Was Our Gardens”: Women’s Work and Welfare Reform in the Reservation Economy 133
14. Chapter Eight Work and Culture in Southeastern Alaska: Tlingits and the Salmon Fisheries 156
15. Chapter Nine Five Dollars a Week to Be “Regular Indians”: Shows, Exhibitions, and the Economics of Indian Dancing, 1880–1930 184
16. Chapter Ten Land, Labor, and Leadership: The Political Economy of Hualapai Community Building, 1910–1940 209
17. Chapter Eleven Working for Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and the Market Economy in Northern California, 1875–1936 238
18. Part Three Methodology and Theoretical Implications
19. Chapter Twelve Local Knowledge as Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Definition and Ownership 261
20. Chapter Thirteen “Dollar a Day and Glad to Have It”: Work Relief on the Wind River Indian Reservation as Memory 283
21. Chapter Fourteen Tribal Capitalism and Native Capitalists: Multiple Pathways of Native Economy 308
22. Chapter Fifteen Conclusion 330
23. About the Contributors 335
24. Index 341