Universities and Indian Country

Case Studies in Tribal-Driven Research

Dennis K. Norman (Editor), Joseph P. Kalt (Editor)
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The book describes the “nation-building” strategy by which an increasing number of Native communities have set about reclaiming powers of self-determination, strengthening their cultures, and developing their economies. A piece of this movement has been the establishment of new models for tribally-driven and requested relations between universities and American Indian/Alaskan Native communities and organizations.

Building on the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s experience with more than 120 nation-building projects over two decades, Universities and Indian Country posits that the tenets of nation building can provide a strategy for expanding and diversifying universities’ perspectives of knowledge in a multicultural world, while also producing results that are requested by and useful to Native communities.

This groundbreaking volume extends the dialogue begun by the Harvard project, providing another venue for the sharing of knowledge and information. The projects presented address a wide range of topics, including the regulation of genetic research, human resource development, tribal fund-raising, development of tribal museums, and freedom of the press in Indian Country.

Universities and Indian Country’s focus on the concerns and questions of Native communities themselves, provides insight not only into how projects came together, but also into what significance they have to the tribal partners. This compilation is a valuable resource for any student, professional, or community member concerned with issues of nation building and self-determination.
“Advocate for respecting and assisting Native Nation sovereignty. The project participants work to provide Native communities with the information and research they want and need—exactly how it should be!”—Marianne O. Nielsen, co-editor of Criminal Justice in Native America


“The research projects come directly from Indian Country leaders, which gives the overall project a timeliness and importance not always seen from academic work about Indian Country.”—Matthew L. M. Fletcher, author of American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law


“An important resource for those who desire frameworks for tribally driven research activities.”—AlterNative
Universities and Indian Country
216 Pages 6 x 9
Published: May 2015Paperback ISBN: 9780816521272
Published: May 2015Ebook ISBN: 9780816501670

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