COVID-19 is the most recent example of the vulnerability of American Indian reservations to pandemic disease. The Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 infection rate is higher than that of any US state—even New York. The economic and health situation on reservations exacerbates the challenge of...

Creating sustainable economies is crucial to the future viability of Indian reservations and communities and is the most important issue that tribal governments face today. The exercise of sovereignty and jurisdiction, and the preservation of tribal cultures are largely dependent on improving...

Property institutions should ideally provide economic actors with certainty that their local choices about investment will not be unsettled by shifting political economic equilibria. We argue that for this to occur, political autonomy, administrative and enforcement capacity, political...