Office Hours: Terry Anderson answers your questions on renewing indigenous economies

Hoover Institution senior fellow Terry Anderson answers frequently asked questions from his "Renewing Indigenous Economies" videos on PolicyEd.

 

Questions:

 

1. In what ways were early indigenous economies like modern free market economies?
2. Are modern ideas of property rights in line with Native beliefs about land ownership?
3. What is standing in the way of Native Americans starting businesses and improving their lives?
4. Why is it important to Native peoples that they stay on their reservation lands?
5. What policies could be enacted to restore tribal sovereignty?
6. Are there examples of tribes that have recovered their sovereignty? What keeps other tribes from doing the same thing?

 

Click below to watch the three videos.

 

Original Indigenous Economies: http://hvr.co/RIE1

Colonialism: Then and Now: http://hvr.co/RIE2

A New Path Forward: http://hvr.co/RIE3

 

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