Native American reservation constitutions

Politics, economics and Native American conflicts

“…This article contributes to the growing economic literature on Native Americans, but distinguishes itself by not relating to the economic wellbeing of people or their institutions, but rather the timing of violence over the nineteenth century. Other research focuses on tribal constitutions, for example, Cornell and Kalt (2000), Anderson and Parker (2006), Akee et al (2015), Anderson (2016) or other institutional aspects of tribes for example, Mathers (2012), Regan (2014), Russ and Stratmann (2014), Anderson and Parker (2008). Dippel (2014) examines historic factors that played a role in current reservation wealth (described more below).…”

The fraternal Atlantic: An introduction

“…4 In 1717, freemasons from English lodges formed the first grand lodge, what would become the Grand Lodge of England, and in 1723, a Scots Presbyterian minister living in England, James Anderson, published The Constitutions of the Free-Masons, which was soon translated into other languages. 5 By the 1720s, masonic lodges could be found in many places in the Atlantic world -Ireland, France, and British Americaseemingly in response to the accelerating population growth and economic activity across the Atlantic basin. 6 In the three decades of peace after the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713), natural reproduction in the French and British settler colonies saw populations doubling every twenty to twenty-five years, a phenomenon Benjamin Franklin analyzed in a 1755 pamphlet entitled Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.…”