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Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peop

A collaboration between indigenous leaders, social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, In the Way of Development explores the current situation of indigenous peoples enmeshed in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy. The volume assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations all starting with indigenous peoples as actors, not victims. The accounts come primarily from North America, but include also studies from South America, and the former Soviet Union. In the Way of Development shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Knowing and Managing the Land: The Conundrum of Coexistence and Entanglement -- 2 Dialogues on Surviving: Eeyou Hunters' Ways of Engagement with Land, Governments, and Youth -- 3 The Endurance of Relational Ontology: Encounters between Eeyouch and Sport Hunters -- 4 Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas: Resistance, Articulation, and Entanglement in the Context of Natural Resource Management -- 5 Mediation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Another Analysis of "Two-Way" Conservation in Northern Australia -- 6 Cultural Politics of Land and Animals in Treaty 8 Territory (Northern Alberta, Canada) -- 7 Entanglements in Coast Salish Ancestral Territories -- 8 Transmission of Knowledge, Clans, and Lands among the Yolnu (Northern Territory, Australia) -- 9 Alien Relations: Ecological and Ontological Dilemmas Posed for Indigenous Australians in the Management of "Feral" Camels on Their Lands -- 10 Nehirowisiw Territoriality: Negotiating and Managing Entanglement and Coexistence -- 11 Is There a Role for Anthropology in Cultural Reproduction? Maps, Mining, and the "Cultural Future" in Central Australia -- Afterword -- Contributors