Ethnicity and Uneven Development: Native Americans and the Capitalist Periphery

FAIN: FR-10276-78

Raymond B. Pratt
Montana State University (Bozeman, MT 59717-2470)

To examine the reciprocity of the "colonial" macro-structural economic situation of Indian tribes and their developing sense of ethnic separateness in the face of outside demands for their mineral resources Research aims at exploration of the persistence of Native American culture as a function of contemporary situations, particularly the subordinate position of tribes as "internal colonies."