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Economic History and Indigenous Peoples in North America

2025· article· en· W4413014617 on OpenAlex
Donna Feir

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnnual Review of Economics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHistorical Economic and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousEconomicsGeographyDevelopment economicsHistoryPolitical science

Abstract

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I summarize the current state of economists’ contributions to the economic history of Indigenous Peoples in North America. After briefly providing some context, I describe the current state of the literature, which is dominated by studies focusing on the period post-1800, over 300 years after contact. With a few exceptions, the literature largely paints a story of dispossession and decline after a golden era of economic interdependence in the fur trade. While valuable, I suggest this story is just a glimpse of something substantively more significant and fundamental to the economic history of North America. Understanding the centrality of Indigenous Peoples in North American economic history broadly and of Indigenous Peoples’ continued existence as economic actors offers yet unseen opportunities to revise our understanding of North American economic development. Beyond this, studying Indigenous North American history offers new opportunities to understand and reimagine how nations and economic systems rise, fall, interact with changing ecological systems, and persist in the face of dramatic change.

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DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.930
Threshold uncertainty score0.897

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it