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Article: Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
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- Freeman
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- January 1, 2008
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Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Tliomas F. Flanagan Stanford University Press * 2006 * 331 pages * $35.00
Reviewed by William L. Anderson
While driving across the American west in 2006, I passed through Indian reservations, their desert landscapes dotted with shanties, trailers-and casinos. It was a classic picture of wealth surrounded by poverty, a comparison that socialists often love to make when denigrating capitalism.
Yet, as former secretary of the interior James Watt so famously said 25 years ago, one need not go to socialist countries to observe failures of socialism; just go to the reservation. Unfortunately, ...