2009

Becoming public sociology: Indigenous nations, dialogue, and change.

Cornell, Stephen. 2009. In Handbook of Public Sociology, ed. Vincent Jeffries. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Is There Only One Path to Development? Sustainable Heterogeneity Among Contemporary American Indian Nations.

Cornell, Stephen, Miriam Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt. In press. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.

2008

Analyzes the extent of predatory lending activity in Indian Country with regard to housing lending, payday lending, car title loans, loans against tax refunds, and pawn shop activity; provides recommendations on how Native nations might limit the activities of predatory lenders in their communities, including assisting borrowers who are already engaged with such lenders, educating consumers on how to avoid predatory lenders, and shutting down predatory lending through regulation and legislation.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Provides an in-depth look, using the Jump$tart survey instrument, at the personal financial knowledge of Native youth in three states with high Native populations—Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota; examines the largest sample of Native high school students ever surveyed regarding financial literacy skills.

The research for this report was conducted under the auspices of NNI's partner organization, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at Harvard University.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Concludes from interviews with 18 tribal officials and employees, federal officials, and academics knowledgeable about health care delivery to Native nations, that where funds and capacity permit, tribal-managed health care improves access.

CONTACT:
Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute; also Operations Manager, Udall Center
scrainie@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

2007

The Financial Literacy of Native American Youth.

Jorgensen, Miriam, and Lewis Mandell. 2007. Rapid City: National Financial Education Coalition, First Nations Oweesta Corporation. [pdf]

The research for this report was conducted under the auspices of NNI's partner organization, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at Harvard University.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Strengthening and Rebuilding Tribal Justice Systems: A Participatory Outcomes Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Justice Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement (CIRCLE) Project.

Wakeling, Stewart, and Miriam Jorgensen, and others. 2007. Final report to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tucson: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy. [pdf]

Assesses the U.S. Department of Justice’s Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement (CIRCLE) Project, which aimed to help participating tribes implement strategies for making the individual components of their justice systems work better together in addressing crime and related social problems.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

2006

Contributions of the Earned Income Tax Credit to Community Development in Indian Country

Wagner, Kristen, Miriam Jorgensen, Dana Klar, and Karen Edwards. 2006. Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2005 Native Community VITA Site Project. St. Louis: Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies and Center for Social Development, Washington University. [link]

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Self-Determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.

Cornell, Stephen. 2006. Joint Occasional Publications on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Argues that there is strong evidence from the United States that effective solutions to indigenous poverty depend on, among other things, Indigenous self-determination; summarizes the U.S. evidence and considers its applicability to the situations of Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

CITE AS:
Cornell, Stephen. 2005. Indigenous peoples, poverty, and self-Determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. In Indigenous peoples and poverty: An international perspective, ed. Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew McNeish and Alberto D. Cimadamore, 199-225. London: Zed Books.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Native Nation Building.

Record, Ian, prod. 2006. Ten-part CD/DVD series. Tucson: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy. [link]

Provides critical information to the leaders of Indian nations, students in tribal colleges and other educational institutions, and other interested individuals about what’s working and what’s not among Native nations as they engage in the difficult and daunting challenge of nation building.

CONTACT:
Ian Record, Manager, Educational Resources Program, Native Nations Institute; also Senior Lecturer, American Indian Studies Program
recordi@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Statement before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Oversight Hearing on Economic Development.

Jorgensen, Miriam. 2006. In Oversight Hearing on Economic Development in Indian Country, before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, 109th Congress, Second Session, May 10, 2006, 75-95. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. [link]

Provides a 20-page review about economic development, the elements to successful economic development in Indian Country, and the implications for federal policy-making.

The research for this report was conducted under the auspices of NNI's partner organization, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at Harvard University.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

What Makes First Nations Enterprises Successful? Lessons from the Harvard Project.

Cornell, Stephen. 2006. Joint Occasional Publications on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Examines how the actions of Native nations themselves can either undermine or strengthen their own enterprises, focusing on five factors that Indigenous nations can control but that sometimes are ignored in the effort to build successful, nation-owned businesses: clarity about enterprise goals; effective management of the politics-business connection; the purpose, power, and composition of enterprise boards of directors; independent and reliable resolution of disputes; and the need to educate the community about enterprise goals and activity.

CITE AS:
Cornell, Stephen. 2005. What makes First Nations enterprises successful? Lessons from the Harvard Project.” In Legal Aspects of Aboriginal Business Development, ed. Dwight Dorey and Joseph Magnet, 51-65. Toronto: LexisNexis Canada.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

2005

Native Cultural Arts Organizations: What They Are and What They Need.

Jorgensen, Miriam, and others. 2005. Tucson and Phoenix: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Atlatl, Inc. [pdf]

Offers an analytical summary of results form a national survey of Native-controlled cultural arts organizations to gain a better understanding of the entities comprised in the sector and their needs.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't.

Cornell, Stephen, Miriam Jorgensen, Joseph P. Kalt, and Katherine A. Spilde.
2005. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Examines the question of why is it that some Native nations seize upon the nation building strategy and take effective control of their futures while others do not; finds that foundational change in a community arises when the external and internal conditions a people face interact with their interpretations of their situation, producing a new, shared “story” of what is possible, and how it can be achieved.

CITE AS:
Cornell, Stephen, Miriam Jorgensen, Joseph P. Kalt, and Katherine A. Spilde. 2007. Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't.. In Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, ed. Miriam Jorgensen. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Two Approaches to Economic Development on American Indian Reservations: One Works, the Other Doesn't.

Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. 2005. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Compares the “standard approach,” long supported by the U.S. government and by some Indian nations, to the “nation-building approach”; defines the characteristics of these two approaches; shows why the latter approach has begun to produce significant improvements in reservation socioeconomic conditions.

CITE AS:
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. 2007. Two approaches to economic development on American Indian reservations: One works, the other doesn’t. In Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, ed. Miriam Jorgensen. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Large Foundations’ Grantmaking to Native America.

Hicks, Sarah, and Miriam Jorgensen. 2005. Cambridge: Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Summarizes the findings of a study of the amounts, sources, and targets of large private foundations’ investments in Native America.

The research for this report was conducted under the auspices of NNI's partner organization, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at Harvard University.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

2004

The Concept of Governance and its Implications for First Nations.

Cornell, Stephen, Catherine Curtis, and Miriam Jorgensen. 2004. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Describes the critical role both governance and government play in human communities; examines what effective self-governance involves and how self-governing systems can be built, and draws distinctions between self-administration—sometimes mistaken for self-government—and genuine self-government.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

History's Lesson for HUD and Tribes.

Jorgensen, Miriam. 2004. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, 43 pp. [pdf]

Analyzes the differential success of the Indian Housing Authority and provides important information about the conditions under which the new tribal efforts will be successful; finds that unless the new approach addresses core issues of tribal governance, it will be inadequate for real reform of Indian housing.

CONTACT:
Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director, Native Nations Institute; also Research Director, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University
mjorgens@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule.

Kalt, Joseph P., and Joseph William Singer. 2004. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, 47 pp. [pdf]

Explores legal and economic dimensions of current perceptions of (and debates over) the nature and extent of tribal self-rule in the United States, with the objective of distinguishing between myth and reality; addresses key threads of thought and assumptions that pervade, accurately or inaccurately, discussions in the public policy arena.

CONTACT:
Joseph P. Kalt, Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University
jkalt@compasslexecon.com or (520) 626-4393

Native American Health and Welfare Policy in and Age of New Federalism

Merideth, Robert, and Stephanie C. Rainie, eds. 2002. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.

Contains edited presentations from the conference, “Native American Health Issues and Welfare Policy in an Era of Devolution,” held in Tucson, Ariz., November 1998, and organized by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona, the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundations.

CONTACT:
Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute; also Operations Manager, Udall Center
scrainie@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

2003

Reloading the Dice: Improving the Chances for Economic Development on American Indian Reservations.

Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, 2003. [pdf]

Reviews the obstacles that Indian nations face as they pursue their development goals, outlines the critical role that institutions of tribal governance play in the development process, and suggests ways that newly empowered tribal governments can improve their tribes' chances of achieving self-determined development success.

CITE AS:
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. 1992. Reloading the dice: Improving the chances for economic development on American Indian reservations.” In What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development, ed. Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt, 1-59. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, UCLA.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Alaska Native Self-Government and Service Delivery: What Works?

Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. 2003. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Reviews examples of innovative Native self-governance initiatives underway in Alaska, examines the applicability to Alaska of research on indigenous self-governance in the lower forty-eight states and Canada, and considers implications for policymakers.

CONTACT:
Stephen Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Faculty Associate, Native Nations Institute; also Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration
scornell@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-4393

Social and Economic Consequences of Indian Gaming in Oklahoma.

Grant II, Kenneth W., Katherine A. Spilde, and Jonathan B. Taylor. 2003. Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA). Tucson and Cambridge: Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. [pdf]

Finds that tribal governments in Oklahoma are translating revenues and employment opportunities from gaming into positive social investment.

CONTACT:
Jonathan Taylor, Senior Policy Associate, Native Nations Institute; also President, Taylor Policy Group, Inc.
jonathan@taylorpolicy.com or (941) 309 -5158

Native Nations, the Environment, and the State of California: Tribal-State Relationships and Environmental Quality.

Rainie, Stephanie C., Joan Timeche, Kylie Dickman, and Robert Merideth, eds.
2003. Proceedings of California Environmental Protection Agency’s workshop on policy for working with tribes along the California-Baja California border. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. [pdf]

Provides a summary of the discussions at the workshop by the same name held April 14-15, 2003, in Temecula, Calif., organized by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI) at The University of Arizona and cosponsored by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9.

CONTACT:
Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute; also Operations Manager, Udall Center
scrainie@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Building Native Nations: Environment, Natural Resources, and Governance.

Rainie, Stephanie C., ed. 2003. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.

Contains edited presentations from the conference, “Building Native Nations: Environment, Natural Resources, and Governance,” held in Tucson, Ariz., December 2001, and organized by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona, and the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.

CONTACT:
Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Research Analyst, Native Nations Institute; also Operations Manager, Udall Center
scrainie@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664

Current Issues in Indian Health Policy (rev. ed.)

Roubideaux, Yvette. 2002. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.

This is a revised edition of a report prepared for the conference, “Native American Health Issues and Welfare Policy in an Era of Devolution,” held in Tucson, Ariz., November 1998, and organized by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona, the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundations.

Summarizes issues in Indian health policy in the following areas: American Indian/Alaska Native population demographics and health status; sources of health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives; key Indian health legislation; changes in the Indian health care system and U.S. health care system affecting Indian health; and challenges to the federal trust responsibility.