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5 Am. Indian L.J. 1 (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/ailj5 and id is 1 raw text is: ASSESSING POLITICAL ECONOMY IN NATIVE AMERICAN
NATIONS
W. Gregory Guedel, Ph.D., JD
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................4
II. CRITIQUE OF AGGREGATE ECONOMIC INDICATORS TO EVALUATE
NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ..................6
A. Development Disparities between Native American Nations ....6
B. The Evolution of Native American Development Theory ......8
C. Emerging Conceptions of Tribal Sovereignty .....................11
1. Reclaiming the Mantle-Vine Deloria, Jr ......................13
2. Rejecting the Premise-Taiaiake Alfred .........................15
3. Seeking a Third Space-Kevin Bruyneel ....................17
4. Synthesizing Sovereignty Conceptions-Process and
Innovation....................................................................19
D. From Sovereignty to Governance: Formal and Informal
Institutions..........................................................................21
1. Informal Institutions: Cooperation and Competition.....25
2. Institutional Dynamics in Native American Nations .....26
III. AN ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY: QUALITATIVELY ASSESSING
THE RELATIVE STATE OF A TRIBE'S FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS .........29
A. Assessing    Political Economies: Institutions   and  Tribal
Economic Development .......................................................30
1. Defining Economic Development in the Tribal
Context.........................................................................30
2. A New Analytical Approach-Institutional Relativity
within Native American Nations .................................33
3. Structural Conditions for Native American Political
Economy ......................................................................37
4. Case Study Sample Selection: Coast Salish Nations .....39
B. Applying the Political Economy Assessment to Coast Salish
Nations...............................................................................41
1. Comparative Historical Context of Socio-Political
Institutions....................................................................43
a. Jamestown S'Klallam Socio-Political History.........43
b. Snoqualmie Socio-Political History.........................47

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