This article provides a brief history and a comprehensive analysis of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the oldest and most maligned Agency in the U.S. Government. The author describes in detail the ways in which the agency carries out its statutory mandates, citing the BIA''s regulatory code,...

Since the 1970s, federal American Indian policy in the United States has been aimed at promoting self-determination through self-governance by federally-recognized tribes. This policy has proven to be the only policy that has worked to make significant progress in reversing otherwise distressed...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Researching the Obvious: Tourism and the Eastern Cherokee -- 2. The Trail of Tourism -- 3. Academic Perspectives on Tourism and the Case of Cherokee, North Carolina -- 4. Eastern Cherokee Ingenuity -- 5. Disneyfication on the Boundary -- 6. Mass...