A recent Harvard University report shows economic gains on reservations throughout Indian Country.

Based on U.S. Census data, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development noted improvements from 1990 to 2000. Gains were made among gaming and non-gaming tribes.

The findings included:
� Real per capita income among Native Americans rose by about one-third - three times the increase for the U.S. as a whole.
� Family poverty rates dropped 10 percent among gaming tribes and 7 percent among non-gaming tribes. The overall U.S. poverty rate dropped less than 1 percent over the same period.
� Unemployment rates dropped 2.5 percent among non-gaming tribes and 5 percent among gaming tribes.

Get the Story:
Gains on the reservations (The Christian Science Monitor 2/15)

Get the Report:
American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 2000 Censuses | Data Files [Microsoft Excel format] | Bibliography

Relevant Links:
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied

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