Preface -- Editor's Introduction: Native Americans and U.S. Economic History -- Pre-Colonial Civilizations -- Introduction -- Economy, Ecology, and Institutions in the Emergence of Humankind -- The Mississippians and Economic Development Before European Colonization -- Institutional Change in the Indian Horse Culture -- Trade and Colonial Economies -- Introduction -- Property Rights and Competition in the Depletion of the Beaver -- The Eighteenth-Century Southeastern American Indian Economy -- Westward Expansion -- Introduction -- Could the Cherokee Have Survived in the Southeast? -- Land, Population, Prices, and the Regulation of Natural Resources -- The Political Economy of Indian Wars -- Twentieth-Century Federalism -- Introduction -- The Economics and Politics of Irrigation Projects on Indian Reservations, 1900-1940 -- The Political Economy of the Hawaiian Home Lands Program.