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3 - The Challenges of American Indian Land Tenure and the Vastness of Entrepreneurial Potential

from Part II - Policy Barriers and Policy Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2019

Robert J. Miller
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Miriam Jorgensen
Affiliation:
Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Daniel Stewart
Affiliation:
Gonzaga University, Washington
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Summary

This chapter explores the link between entrepreneurship and the larger project of reservation land tenure reform. Many scholars draw a connection between land-tenure design and economic development generally. This chapter provides a more detailed analysis of current reservation land tenure dynamics and the specific challenges these systems can create for private economic development. Despite this current system’s widely recognized economic and non-economic perils, successful reservation land reforms have proven incredibly difficult to achieve. In order to encourage more land-tenure innovation, this chapter flips the land reform conversation on its head. Instead of focusing solely on land reform strategies to promote economic development, this chapter explores how supporting entrepreneurship itself might, in turn, drive more experimental, innovative, and flexible land reform. Entrepreneurs tend to thrive in the kind of uncertain legal environment that is otherwise seen as a problem in Indian country, and entrepreneurs might therefore be uniquely well suited to navigate reservation legal landscapes in creative ways. Entrepreneurship can be a powerful catalyst both to improve reservation economies and to support Indigenous efforts to reclaim and sustain local land ethics and property law choices.

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Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship
, pp. 67 - 81
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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