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As Nicholas Zaferatos states in his new book Planning the American Indian Reservation, tribal planning is the “most challenging and poorly understood specialization with the American planning profession” (p. 2). One central reason for these challenges is a “methodological policy history that simultaneously eroded tribal political authority and fragmented many of the reservation homelands…”. But his book offers hope that effective tribal planning “can alter the nature of our political landscape and help to rebalance the uneven relationships” between tribal and nontribal governments (p. 1). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.