Robert Hamilton

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand the issues not in terms of sweeping empirical findings but rather the particular experiences of individuals and communities. The choice to focus on specific practices of law and governance is a conscious rejection of idealized theorizing about law and governance and represents an important step in the existing scholarship.

The volume offers readers a broad scope of perspectives, incorporating contemporary thought on Indigenous law and legal orders, the impact of state law on Indigenous peoples, theories and practices of economic development, and grounded practices of governances. While the authors address a range of topics, each does so in a way that sheds light on how Indigenous practices of law and governance support the social and economic development of Indigenous peoples.

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Table of Contents
Part 1: Facilitating and Framing Wise Practices
1. Indigenous Economic Justice and Self-Determination: Wise Practices In Indigenous Law, Governance, And Leadership 
2. A Wise Practices Approach to Indigenous Law, Governance And Leadership: Resistance Against The Imposition Of Law 
3. Wise Practices: Toward A Paradigm of Indigenous Applied Community Economic Development Research And Facilitation 

Part 2: The State of the Law
4. Economic Justice in Practice 
5. Of Spectrums and Foundations: An Investigation into The Limitations Of Aboriginal Rights. 
6. The State Of Canadian Law on Representation and Standing In Aboriginal Rights And Title Litigation 
7. Miyo Pimâtisiwin And The Politics Of Ignorance: Advancing Indigenous ‘Good Living’ Through Dismantling Our Mediated Relations 

Part 3: Alternative in Practice
8. Accepting Responsibility For Your Nationhood Is Worthwhile For Any Nation On Earth, Not Just Indigenous People. 
9. Wise Practices in Indigenous Economic Development & Environmental Protection 
10. Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Finding Solutions in Indigenous and International Law 
11. Victory through Honour: Bridging Canadian Intellectual Property Laws and Kwakwaka’wakw Cultural Property Laws

Recommended for courses in economics, Indigenous studies, Indigenous politics, law and society, and political science.

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384 pages | 6.00" x 9.00"