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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 1