Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / George Pierre Castile and Robert L. Bee
  • Part I. Historical foundations of the reservation system
  • An elusive institution : the birth of Indian reservations in Gold Rush California / John M. Findlay
  • Crow leadership amidst reservation oppression / Frederick E. Hoxie
  • Part II. The nonreservation experience
  • Utah Indians and the homestead laws / Martha C. Knack
  • The enduring reservations of Oklahoma / John H. Moore
  • Without reservation : federal Indian policy and the landless tribes of Washington / Frank W. Porter III
  • Part III. Power and symbols
  • Riding the paper tiger / Robert L. Bee
  • Indian sign : hegemony and symbolism in federal Indian policy / George Pierre Castile
  • Part IV. The resource base
  • Primitive accumulation, reservations, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act / Lawrence D. Weiss and David C. Maas
  • Shortcomings of the Indian self-determination policy / George S. Esber, Jr.
  • Getting to yes in the new West / Thomas R. McGuire.