Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING BAD DEALS

Prologue

1. The Tribal Leasing Regime

2. Postwar Energy Demands and the Southwestern Experience

3. “The Best Situation in Their History”

PART TWO: LOCAL RESISTANCE

4. “The Most Important Tribe in America”

5. Determining the Self

PART THREE: THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

6. Taking the Fight National

7. Recognizing Tribal Sovereignty

Epilogue: New Era, Similar Results

Notes

Index