Peter Morris

Exercising Sovereignty and Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Tribal Land Management

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While the United States faces one of the most significant housing crises in the nation’s history, many forget that Indian housing has been in crisis for generations. This report seeks to take some important steps toward a future where safe, affordable, and decent housing is available to Native people in numbers sufficient to meet the housing needs that exist in Indian country today.

This study provides first-of-its-kind analysis of a critical barrier to homeownership on Indian lands. It analyzes the success of tribes that have taken responsibility (in whole or in part) for administering the land title process on tribal lands. It also addresses the challenges those tribes have faced...

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Edwards, Karen, Peter Morris, and Sharon Redthunder. "Exercising Sovereignty and Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Tribal Land Management." The First Nations Development Institute and The NCAI Policy Research Center. Washington, D.C. 2009. Report. (http://www.issuelab.org/resource/exercising_sovereignty..., accessed April 11, 2023)

Tribal experience with children's accounts

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“Accounts at birth” is an important idea at the frontier of savings and asset-building policy. How to make them effective is an important topic for research. This paper presents ideas and initial findings from the experience of American Indian nations–America's first asset-builders–with such policies. It describes the motivations for creating “minors' accounts,” which are offered by approximately 70 tribes. These tribes are the only jurisdictions in the nation to offer universal, unrestricted accounts for children. Increasingly, they also are using conditions and incentives to promote their policy goals. Their experiences offer important insights for mainstream policy makers and program managers (in the United States and elsewhere) about how to design effective children's accounts policy. The paper closes by stressing a two-way flow of information, as ideas and research findings from non-tribal communities offer new ways to strengthen tribal minors' account policies and further Native nations' welfare-enhancing goals. 

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Jorgensen, Miriam, Peter Morris, "Tribal experience with children's accounts," Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 1528-1537. Elsevier. November 2010. Paper.