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- Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
- Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Setting
- Part II Policy Barriers and Policy Needs
- 3 The Challenges of American Indian Land Tenure and the Vastness of Entrepreneurial Potential
- 4 Right-Sizing Use Rights: Navajo Land, Bureaucracy, and Home
- 5 Access to Credit in Indian Country: The Promise of Secured Transaction Systems in Creating Strong Economies
- 6 Tribal Economic Resurgence: Reflections from a Tribal Economic Development Practitioner
- Part III Learning from Business Scholars
- Part IV From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country
- Index
4 - Right-Sizing Use Rights: Navajo Land, Bureaucracy, and Home
from Part II - Policy Barriers and Policy Needs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2019
- Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
- Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Setting
- Part II Policy Barriers and Policy Needs
- 3 The Challenges of American Indian Land Tenure and the Vastness of Entrepreneurial Potential
- 4 Right-Sizing Use Rights: Navajo Land, Bureaucracy, and Home
- 5 Access to Credit in Indian Country: The Promise of Secured Transaction Systems in Creating Strong Economies
- 6 Tribal Economic Resurgence: Reflections from a Tribal Economic Development Practitioner
- Part III Learning from Business Scholars
- Part IV From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country
- Index
Summary
It is imperative that the Navajo Nation engage in meaningful land reform. This chapter highlights the challenges Dinē families face when seeking permission to use tribal trust land. Beginning with an exploration of the motivation behind the Navajo Nation’s recent effort to reform the process for obtaining a homesite lease, the chapter describes how it can be hard to find useable land even on the largest reservation. As the chapter notes, there are many reasons, including the need to find an alternative tax base now that extractive industries such as coal are leaving the reservation, that the central government should be interested in land reform. But hitting the right spot, the amount of paperwork and required fees, when it comes to formalizing use rights is hard. The Navajo Nation faces real difficulties resolving the how much control and what sort of control the central government should exercise over Dinē life, especially as it relates to the home.
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- Creating Private Sector Economies in Native AmericaSustainable Development through Entrepreneurship, pp. 82 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019