An introduction to American Indian human capital and development / Carol Ward and C. Matthew Snipp -- Alaska natives and the protestant ethic / Joseph G. Jorgensen -- Key actors in American Indian human capital formation : the Northern Cheyenne case / Carol Ward -- Economic development and indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, and Australia : a comparative analysis / David L. Vinje -- The changing health status of native Americans residing on or near reservations / Alan L. Sorkin -- Sociocultural responses to coal development : a comparison of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne / Duane Champagne -- Micro-enterprise credit in Indian country / David Mushinski and Kathleen Pickering -- Bringing it to the center : artistic production as economic development among American Indian women of Fort Berthold, North Dakota / Tressa L. Berman