American Indians in the Marketplace

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"Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and political forces over fifty years."--BOOK JACKET. "American Indians in the Marketplace is a story of adaptation that acknowledges the hardship and suffering common to most Indian-white contact while emphasizing the benefits of selective modernization accompanied by a constant re-invention of tradition. It questions the victim thesis of Native American history and shows that native peoples can meet the challenges of surviving in the larger world."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Cultural assimilation,  Economic conditions,  Tsimshian Indians,  Menominee Indians,  Menomini (Indiens),  Conditions économiques,  Acculturation,  Tsimshian (Indiens),  Economic history,  Kapitalistische productiewijze,  Menomini,  Aanpassingsvermogen,  Indianen,  Marktwirtschaft,  Kulturelle Identität,  Wirtschaftsentwicklung,  Menominee (Indiens),  Indians of north america, cultural assimilation,  Alaska, economic conditions