Harvard Indian Project gives a hand to sovereignty

0 Comments | Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), July, 2000 | by Adams, Jim

Adams, Jim Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-26-2000 Harvard Indian Project gives a hand to sovereignty By Jim Adams TODAY STAFF CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from any major reservation, Harvard University's prestigious John F. Kennedy School of Government is rapidly becoming a bastion of the struggle for tribal sovereignty. The new red-brick campus of the Kennedy School, tucked in a corner of the teeming, twisted streets of this Ivy League metropolis, is home to the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, a 13-year-old effort to figure out why some tribes are success stories, and others aren't. The professors who run the project now think they have an answer. The key, says co-director Joseph P....