The Political economy of North American Indians

Moore, John H., 1939- (Added Author).

Summary: "This innovative collection of articles approaches American Indian history and culture from a Marxist perspective. The contributors, from the United States and Canada, have jumped the boundaries among the social sciences to consider issues of macroeconomics and intercultural conflict. The result is a stimulating and substantial contribution that will interest any reader concerned with policy affecting North American Indians." "The contributors are particularly attentive to process and change. They show the relationships among the historical periods characterized by the fur trade, land cessions, and the reservation education system. They expose the collusion among agencies of the dominant society and how Indian people reacted, reorganizing themselves and their institutions to face every new, changed situation."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0806125055
ISBN: 9780806125053
Physical Description: print
xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-337) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Political economy in anthropology / John H. Moore -- The political economy of Lakota consciousness / Thomas Biolsi -- Learning to labor : Native American education in the United States, 1880-1930 / Alice Littlefield -- Health patterns and economic underdevelopment on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, 1910-1920 / Gregory R. Campbell -- Natives and the development of mercantile capitalism : a new look at "opposition" in the eighteenth century fur trade / Bruce Alden Cox -- Symbiosis, merger, and war : contrasting forms of intertribal relationship among historic Plains Indians / Patricia C. Albers -- Political economy of the buffalo hide trade : Race and class on the Plains / Alan M. Klein -- The quest for Indian development in Canada : contrasts and contradictions / J.S. Frideres -- Autonomy and constraint : the household economy on a Southern Ontario reserve / Max J. Hedley -- Multinational corporate development in the American hinterland : the case of the Oklahoma Choctaws / Sandra Faiman-Silva -- How giveaways and pow-wows redistribute the means of subsistence / John H. Moore.