• American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation Among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920

Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures.
Author: Brian Hosmer
Publication: University Press of Kansas, 1999

Price: $28.60
Website: www.amazon.com/American-Indians-Marketplace-Persistence-Metlakatlans/dp/0700609830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207079185&sr=8-1
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Academics, Community Leaders, and Interested Public
Geography: U.S.A. and Canada

• The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990

A revision of the author's dissertation about the law that was designed to mitigate the trade of counterfeit Native American handicrafts.
Author: Gail K. Sheffield
Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

Price: $8.50
Website: www.amazon.com/Arbitrary-Indian-Arts-Crafts-1990/dp/0806129697
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Community Leaders, and Interested Public
Geography: U.S.A.

• Native American Owned and Operated Arts and Crafts Businesses

• Rebuilding Native Nations

A book that provides guidelines for creating new governance structures, launching nation-owned enterprises, encouraging citizen entrepreneurs, developing new relationships with non-Native governments, and confronting the crippling legacies of colonialism.
Author: Miriam Jorgensen
Publication: University of Arizona Press-2007

Price: Starting at $18 on amazon.com
Website: http://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Native-Nations-Strategies-Development/dp/0816524238/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239585612&sr=1-1
Audience: Academics, Tribal leadership, and Policy Makers
Geography: U.S.A.

• The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self Determination

Broad in scope and thematically organized, the volume features twenty-three chapters covering issues ranging from tribal governance, land and natural resources, and economic and social development, to arts and culture.
Author: Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Eric Henson, Jonathan Taylor.
Publication: Oxford University Press, 2007

Price: $19.99
Website: www.amazon.com/State-Native-Nations-Conditions-Self-Determination/dp/0195301269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207088818&sr=8-1
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Academics, and Interested Public
Geography: U.S.A.