Dennis K. Norman

Building on the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s experience with more than 120 nation-building projects over two decades, Universities and Indian Country posits that the tenets of nation building can provide a strategy for expanding and diversifying universities’ perspectives of knowledge in a multicultural world, while also producing results that are requested by and useful to Native communities. It is a valuable resource for any student, professional, and community member working to assert powers of self-determination, strengthen culture, and develop economies.