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Book SynopsisAlthough it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. This explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures.
Trade Review"A nuanced study of the cultural, political, and economic development of two Native American groups, the Menominee of Wisconsin and the Tsimshian of British Columbia. Hosmer demonstrates how each community used economic development to maintain its cultural identity, integrity, and, insofar as possible, independence. Carefully researched and clearly written, this work provides an insightful analysis of and corrective for a historical era often mischaracterized as the end of Native American cultures. An ideal resource for Native American studies, history, economics, and anthropology classes." - Choice "Hosmer forcefully demonstrates how Native people comprehended and adapted to the developing market economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His choice of success stories is a welcome relief from more normative stories of struggle and failure." - Western Historical Quarterly "Hosmer's mix of history, anthropology, and economics is a genuine contribution, an accomplishment whose valuable insights may also prove useful for working with today's emerging societies." - Alaska History"
