Economy, ecology, and institutions in the emergence of humankind / Vernon L. Smith -- Mississippians and economic development before European colonization / Linda Barrington -- Institutional change in the Indian horse culture / Terry L. Anderson and Steven LaCombe -- Property rights and competition in the depletion of the beaver : Native Americans and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1763 / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis -- Eighteenth-century southeastern American Indian economy : subsistence versus trade and growth / Edward Murphy -- Could the Cherokee have survived in the southeast? / David M. Wishart -- Land, population, prices, and the regulation of natural resources : the Lake Superior Ojibwa, 1790-1920 / James W. Oberly -- Political economy of Indian wars / Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesney -- Economics and politics of irrigation projects on Indian reservations, 1900-1940 / Leonard A. Carlson -- Political economy of the Hawaiian Home Lands Program / Sumner J. La Croix and Louis A. Rose