American Indian Policy: Self-Governance and Economic Development

This survey of American Indian policy provides a short history of the mainly unsuccessful efforts by American Indians in the past to assert themselves, and then examines changing concepts relating to self-governance and political, economic, legal, educational, religious, and employment rights. This assessment of Indian opportunities and difficulties examines self-governance in relation to economic development, the redefinition of property rights, the status of development on Indian reservations, and the success some tribes have had in attempting to utilize their resources appropriately and more effectively.

LYMAN H. LEGTERS is Professor Emeritus at the School of International Studies, University of Washington, and Senior Fellow at the William O. Douglas Institute, Washington.

FREMONT J. LYDEN is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, and board member of the Kluckhohn Research Center. He has written at length on public policy problems. His most recent book, co-edited with Lyman H. Legters, was Native Americans and Public Policy (1992).