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Terry Anderson on Native American Economics

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🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Terry Anderson of PERC talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about economic life for Native Americans. Anderson discusses economic life before the arrival of Europeans and how current policy affects Native Americans living on reservations today.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.

0:08.5

I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

0:13.1

Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find

0:18.1

links and other information related to today's conversation.

0:21.0

You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going

0:25.3

back to 2006.

0:27.5

Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.

0:30.0

We'd love to hear from you.

0:34.5

Today is November 14, 2016, and my guest is Terry Anderson, distinguished senior fellow

0:40.1

at the Property and Environment Research Center, known as Perk, and senior fellow at Stanford

0:45.1

University's Hoover Institution.

0:46.7

He's the author of numerous books on environmental issues and is one of the founders of the free

0:51.1

market environmentalism movement.

0:53.4

He appeared on econtalk in August of 2014, talking about the environment and property rights.

0:59.1

Today, we're going to talk about the past and present economic situation of Native Americans

1:04.1

and Indian nations.

1:05.9

Terry, welcome back to econtalk.

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It's always great to be with you, Russ.

1:10.4

How did you come to be interested in this topic?

1:15.1

I grew up in Montana and lived about 50 miles from the Crow Indian reservation.

1:22.7

As a result, once in a while, we would travel through the reservation or in high school,

1:27.6

you might be on a sports team that played a team from the Crow reservation.

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