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Through its Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy, the Udall Center focuses on research, executive education, and outreach related to tribal self-governance, economic development, natural resources and environmental issues, health, and aspects of relevant federal policy. The Center initiates research projects of its own and responds to requests or commissions from indigenous nations, the federal government, and other organizations.
In addition to the publications listed below, the Native Nations Institute and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development are jointly publishing a series of papers on issues related to Native American policy and economic development. These Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs are also available online.
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To inquire about or order any Udall Center publications, please email Robert Merideth or call the Udall Center at 520.626.4393.
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Native Nations Institute Research Report
NNI Research Report - published quarterly as a free, electronic, information service by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy at the University of Arizona - reviews and interprets, for a broad audience, the results of research projects worldwide focusing on indigenous governance, development, and policy.
To receive notices of future issues, send an e-mail to <nnirr@u.arizona.edu> or call 520. 626.0664.
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 Native Nations, the Environment, and the State of California: Tribal-State Relationships and Environmental Quality
edited by Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Joan Timeche, Kylie Dickman, and Robert Merideth
(PDF 492KB)
Provides an overview of the April 2003 workshop of the same name, where representatives of Native nations and agencies discussed and responded to the California Environmental Protection Agency's "Policy for Working with Tribes along the California-Baja California Border."
2003 68pp. $8 |
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 Building Native Nations: Environment, Natural Resources, and Governance
edited by Stephanie Carroll Rainie
Summarizes presentations from a December 2001 event held in Tucson, Arizona. Attended by more than 200 people, the conference explored the governance and policy challenges faced by American Indian and other indigenous nations in dealing with natural resources and environmental management issues.
2003 74p. ISBN 1-931143-20-X $10 |
The First Nations Governance Act: Implications of Research Findings from the United States and Canada
by Stephen Cornell, Miriam Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt
(PDF 134KB)
Report on First Nations Governance Act.
July 2002 22p. Free
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 Native American Health and Welfare Policy in an Age of New Federalism
edited by Robert Merideth and Stephanie Carroll Rainie
Offers an update of presentations from a conference held in Tucson, Arizona, in November 1998. Included are summaries on topics such as the economics of Indian health care, competing in the changing health care marketplace, and advancing Native American health and welfare, among others. Published with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Morris K. Udall Foundation.
2002 99p. ISBN 1-931143-19-6 $10 |
 Current Issues in Indian Health Policy
by Yvette Roubideaux
(PDF 1392 KB)
Explores the impact of recent changes within both the Indian health care system and the U.S. health care system, and the impacts of those changes on Indian health. Provides an overview of current issues in Indian health policy such as key Indian health legislation and the American Indian/Alaska Native population's demographics, health status, and sources for health care.
2002 17p. ISBN 1-931143-16-1 $2 |
An Analysis of the Economic Impact of American Indian Gaming on the State of Arizona
by Stephen Cornell and Jonathan Taylor
(PDF, 86KB) Clarifies some aspects of the nature of Indian gaming and provides a gross analysis of its economic impacts. Employs newly available data on Indian casino operations around the state to provide an estimate-decidedly conservative-of the spending effects of Indian casinos on the Arizona economy.
2001 11p. $4 |
Welfare, Work, and American Indians: The Impact of Welfare Reform
by Eddie Brown, Stephen Cornell, and others
(PDF, 426KB) Reviews the key features of recent welfare reform legislation as it applies to American Indians and Indian Country, assesses its impact on Indian nations and the chances of achieving the legislation's goals, and identifies key issues that demand attention if welfare reform is to succeed on Indian lands. Published with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University.
2001 66p. $2
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Sovereignty, Devolution, and the Future of Tribal-State Relations
by Stephen Cornell and Jonathan Taylor
(PDF, 75KB) Examines the overall state of state-tribal relations, the changes that are reshaping them, and the implications of those changes for Indian nations. Reviews the arguments both for and against genuine, government-to-government, sovereignty-based relationships between tribes and the states, and then summarizes the implications for tribal-state relations.
2000 10p. $3 |
Strategic Analysis for Native Nations
by Stephen Cornell
Provides an analytic tool for use by Indian nations, Indian-owned or -operated corporations or companies, Indian entrepreneurs, and other Native entities seeking to promote economic development in Native communities. Offers a relatively quick, self-administered, intermediate step designed to assist Indian organizations in thinking through their situations and their options, and in improving the quality of their economic decisions.
1999 31p. $6 |
American Indian Gaming Policy and its Socio-Economic Effects: A report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission
by Stephen Cornell, Joseph Kalt, Matthew Krepps, and Jonathan Taylor
Report of a study to assess the economic and social impacts that Indian gaming operations have both on and off reservations. The authors find that the positive social and economic impacts of gaming far outweigh the negative impacts.
1998 79p. $5 |
"Enhancing Rural Leadership and Institutions: What Can We Learn from American Indian Nations?"
by Stephen Cornell
January 2001, International Regional Science Review 24(1):84-102
Analyzes recent Indian reservation experience, concluding that local control, strategic thinking, effective governing institutions, and leadership all have played key roles in reservation development success. It considers implications of these findings for leadership and institutions in rural America.
"Where's the Glue? Institutional and Cultural Foundations of American Indian Economic Development"
by Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt
2000, Journal of Socio-Economics 29(5):443-70
Reports the results of research into the sources of development success during the "take-off" stage of self-government. Little evidence is found to support hypotheses that resource or human capital endowments hold keys to launching Indian economies. Instead, tribal constitutional forms appear to be make-or-break keys to development.
"Sovereignty and Nation-Building: The Development Challenge in Indian Country Today"
by Stephen Cornell and Joseph Kalt
1998, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22(3):187-214
2003, reprinted in Joint Occasional Papers in Native Affairs series
Addresses the shift toward tribal self-determination and the opportunity self-governance allows for Native American peoples to reenvison their futures and rebuild their governments and their economic strategies. Explores patterns of reservation development, approaches to economic development, and the components of nation-building.
Indigenous Self-Governance, Cooperative Management Regimes, and Wildlife Resources (2003)
by Meagan Cahill and Stephen Cornell
(PowerPoint, 1.12MB)
Over the last decade, a growing number of indigenous nations in North America have entered into intergovernmental, cooperative agreements for the management of natural resources. The long-term objective of this project is to examine the institutional mechanisms that facilitate such cooperation and their relationship to indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Can intergovernmental agreements in the natural resource area effectively support indigenous self-governance objectives? Are some such agreements effective vehicles for the improvement of indigenous resource management, particularly in the case of mobile resources such as wildlife? What factors in these agreements support indigenous self-governance, and what factors undermine it?
Institutional Capacity and How it Can Help American Indian Nations Meet the Welfare Challenge (2002)
by Stephen Cornell
(PDF, 197KB)
We hear a lot of talk these days in Indian Country about "capacity-building," often held to be of critical importance to tribal community and economic development. While the specifics vary, capacity-building seems to include a great many things, from training tribal law enforcement agents to funding college scholarships, from buying computers to upgrading administrative procedures, and from building physical infrastructure to investing in labor force improvements.
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