Reservation Capitalism by Robert J Miller

Reservation Capitalism by Robert J Miller

Reservation Capitalism: Economic Development in Indian Country supplies the true history, present-day circumstances, and potential future of Native American communities and economics.

In this new edition, Robert J. Miller, author of the first edition, teams with fellow Indigenous Peoples law and property expert Adam Crepelle to offer a meticulously edited and thoroughly updated text that addresses newly salient issues such as the fast-growing tribal cannabis industry, the significant developments within reservation-based Community Development Financial Institutions, and similarly significant developments with low-income tax credits. This edition also includes two new chapters on emerging opportunities in the clean energy sector and e-commerce, respectively.

Ultimately, these additions shows how, after Covid-19, tribal communities are moving beyond their formerly vulnerable economies predicated almost exclusively on gaming foster sustainable economic development on reservations in order to improve standards of living and sustain their self-sufficiency and self-determination.

Robert J. Miller is Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, USA, where he also serves as Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. He is also Interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and sits as a judge for other tribes. A citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, Miller is an expert on Federal Indian Law, American Indians and international law, American Indian economic development, Native American natural resources, and Civil Procedure.

Adam Crepelle is a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He is a co-founder of the Gulf States American Indian Chamber of Commerce and served as a delegate in the inaugural United States-Australia Indigenous Trade Mission in 2022. He has also been named one of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s "40 under 40." A citizen of the United Houma Nation, he has published over a dozen articles relating to tribal economic development.