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Title: | James Bay Cree Self-Governance and Land Management |
Authors: | Feit, Harvey A. |
Department: | Anthropology |
Keywords: | Self-governance;Land Rights;Political Autonomy;Relations to Nation-states;Short-term means to long-term change;Sustaining Political Agency |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Citation: | Feit, Harvey A. 1989. “James Bay Cree Self Governance and Land Management.” In We Are Here: Politics of Aboriginal Land Tenure. Edwin N. Wilmsen, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 68 98. |
Abstract: | I review James Bay Cree Peoples’ efforts to restructure their relationships to wider systems of economy and nation-state polities within a developed liberal-democratic nation. I show that the relationships that already exist in such states are more complex than has generally been recognized in existing prescriptive discussions of how to respond. I also explore the limits for short-term restructuring within a liberal democratic state. These limits are sufficiently narrow that fundamental conflicts between Cree aspirations and state aspirations and practices cannot be resolved in the short term. Nevertheless, within the limits of a liberal-democratic state there are quite diverse and short-term means by which a people can enhance their opportunities to pursue their goals in the longer run. The future outcomes, however, remain decidedly uncertain. |
Description: | I would like to specially thank Michael Asch, Philip Awashish, Thomas Berger, Fikret Berkes, Taylor Brelsford, Lorraine Brooke, Brian Craik, Thomas Coon, Rick Cuciurean, Billy Diamond, Peter Hutchins, Johnny Jolly, William Kemp, Abel Kitchen, Steve Langdon, Ignatius La Rusic, James O' Reilly, Alan Penn, Richard Preston, Richard Salisbury, Colin Scott, and Paul Wilkinson. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23911 |
ISBN: | 0-520-06300-7 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Publications |
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