An essay by Clyde Ellis, associate professor of history, has been published in a new anthology about Indians and economic development.
“Five Dollars a Week to Be ‘Regular Indians’: Shows, Exhibitions, and the Economics of Indian Dancing, 1880-1930,” has been published in an anthology titled “Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century.”
Published by the University Press of Colorado, the anthology includes essays from noted historians, anthropologists and sociologists. Their work examines how Indians have adopted and adapted capitalist strategies to fit their own culture and beliefs.