Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their LandsWhat does "development" mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among humans and the natural world creates flourishing social ecological economies. Economist Ronald L. Trosper draws on examples from North and South America, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia to argue that Indigenous worldviews centering care and good relationships provide critical and sustainable

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies

and Grandma Greatwalker dreams Josie's spirit name

This book shows how vital and alive and essential Indigenous ways of being and thinking are

land speculators

retaliation for the attacks he fomented in 1862

Adams shaped modern Native activism

and how the consequences still resonate today

Howie serves time in prison

but late at night or in a blizzard it seems endless

A first conversation about the importance of Nibi—which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)—and our role to thank

a deep spiritual life

Back matter includes information about other cultural ceremonies that welcome new babies and children