Description

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A groundbreaking study engaging Indigenous economic theories and relationships.

What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations? Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak (Plains Cree) to argue that economic exploitation was the initial and most enduring relationship between newcomers and Indigenous peoples and that Indigenous economic relationships are constitutive: connections to the land, water, and other human and nonhuman beings form us as individuals and as peoples. This groundbreaking study employs previously overlooked Indigenous economic theories and relationships and provides contemporary examples of nehiyawak renewing these relationships in resurgent ways. Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships offers tools that enable us to reimagine how we can aspire to the good life with all our relations.

About the Author

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Shalene Jobin is a Cree and Métis scholar and a citizen of Red Pheasant Cree First Nation, Treaty 6. She is associate professor of Indigenous studies and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance at the University of Alberta.

Praise For…

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"Excellent. . . Jobin’s riveting inquiry interweaves careful analysis of legal history and scholarly research with evocative stories from her collaborators in community; it also includes many beautiful images of Cree people, art, and practices, along with a glossary of Cree terms, which provides a window into Cree ways of knowing."
— Administrative Science Quarterly

“Beautifully written, Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships is crucially important as a comprehensive exploration of Cree economic values told through story and oral history.”
— Glen Coulthard, author of 'Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition'

“Shalene Jobin’s refreshing perspective on a prairie First Nations community is a desperately needed contribution to Indigenous studies as well as history, anthropology, and Canadian studies.”
— Priscilla Settee, University of Saskatchewan