The Real Takeover of the BIA: The Preferential Hiring of Indians
研究了联邦政府优先雇佣美国印第安人的政策，原本旨在促进同化，却意外导致依赖，揭示了原住民如何根据自身需求重塑政策。
An early long-running federal social policy experiment was the preferential hiring of American Indians at agencies, reserations, and shools. This government employment was designed to accelerate the assimilation of the natives and to reduce their resistance to education and economic change. Instead, the program inadvertently created a form of dependency. This ironic outcome was due to the power of the natives to shape the policy according to their needs and values.