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The Changing Political and Economic Status of the American Indians
Author(s) -
Snipp C. Matthew
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1986.tb01915.x
Subject(s) - underdevelopment , typology , politics , perspective (graphical) , resource (disambiguation) , development economics , political science , sociology , political economy , geography , ethnology , anthropology , economics , law , computer network , artificial intelligence , computer science
A bstract .Resource development on American Indian lands is bringing about a dramatic transformation of the political and economic status of American Indians. Recently, scholars observing this change have increasingly used underdevelopment theory to explain the nature of these changes. However, this discussion points out that as applied to American Indians , the perspective of underdevelopment theory is skewed in several important ways. Specifically, it fails to take into account the distinctive historical and political status of Indians in American society , A simple typology, captive nations 2Lad internal colonies is proposed for describing the status of Indian tribes before and after development.