Upholding Indigenous economic relationships : nehiyawak narratives
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- ISBN: 9780774865104 (hardcover)
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xv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Grounding methods -- Grounding economic relationships -- nehiyawak peoplehood and relationality -- Canada's genesis story -- Warnings of insatiable greed -- Indigenous women's lands and bodies -- Theorizing Cree economic and governing relationships -- Colonial dissonance -- Principles guiding Cree economic relationships -- Renewed relationships through resurgent practices -- Upholding relations. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | E 98 .E2 J63 2023 (Text) | 58500001158955 | Stacks | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-29 |
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The author examines visions of self-determination and economic relationships in Canada from an indigenous perspective that upholds treaties, focusing on the perspectives of Cree knowledge holders, particularly the Plains Cree and Upstream People. She uses indigenous and non-indigenous methods, particularly a peoplehood model that integrates language, territory, ceremonial cycle, and living histories, and 160 Cree stories in relation to economic relationships to present indigenous economic practices that uphold indigenous relationships through a livelihood economic model in which all elements are connected and interdependent. She discusses indigenous economies as described in the literature, including the concepts of economic exploitation and the indigenous political economy; Cree ontological relationships through oral history and storytelling; examples of exploitation that occurred during the fur-trade era; indigenous ideas of identity through citizenship and how these understandings are influenced by neoliberalism; impacts on indigenous women in resource extraction regions; Cree economic relationships, principles, and traditions; the concept of colonial dissonance; principles in Cree knowledge systems in relation to economic relationships and resistance to exploitation; and practices of resurgence. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2023 September
Jobin (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) offers a groundbreaking rethinking of what economic means in the context of nehiyawak ??????? (Plains Cree) culture. She takes readers on a journey through her process of collecting information from Elders and from a variety of academic sources over a decade to cast a critical gaze on the orthodox dichotomy of capitalist economic development or preindustrial fatalism that so often traps the discourse around Indigenous economy and governance in a zero-sum game where only colonialism wins. The alternative that emerges is based on sound relationships rather than resource exploitation, along the nehiyawak principle of miyotpimâtisiwin ?? ??????? (the good life). This study focuses on one specific Indigenous culture, and the author invites other Indigenous groups to find their own culturally grounded ways of recovering the cultural grounds of their Indigenous political economy. This model offers a way out of economic assimilation through resource exploitation agreements, such as comprehensive land claims, so often made with colonial governments. Solidly researched and convincingly presented, this work also challenges non-Indigenous scholars to rethink their own assumptions about Indigenous economic renewal, resurgence, and sovereignty. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
--S. Perreault, Red Deer Polytechnic
Stéphane D. Perreault
Red Deer Polytechnic
Stéphane D. Perreault Choice Reviews 61:01 September 2023 Copyright 2023 American Library Association.