ABSTRACT
State policies shaped the domains over which emergent Indian brokers were to exercise their control. The jurisdictional entities that State policies reinforced tended to be Indian municipalities, constituted not only as territorial domains, but as entities segmented from one another on ethnic lines, among which State policy imposed a kind of mechanical solidarity by disregarding and even undercutting class differences of Indians within them. This in turn undercut the potential for politics in the region to develop along lines of elass that might have given Indians access to the State other than through local-level brokers. In effect, State policies reestablished the "corporate" characteristics that Indian communities had exhibited in different ways in an earlier epoch.
