Product Description
Settling with Indigenous People describes the making of ten contemporary, mostly Australian, local and regional agreements and details the avenues through which such agreements can be implemented and sustained.
The Australian regional agreements concern South West Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin, and Cape York. There is a chapter about the return of the Maralinga lands to its traditional owners and one detailing two local government agreements in central and southwest Australia. Urban agreements in Darwin and Vancouver are compared and there are also chapters on the North West Territories and Northern Quebec in Canada and the Ngai Tahu in the South Island of New Zealand.
The discussion addresses:
governance and leadership
negotiation strategies, including the role of formal negotiating frameworks
the importance of process and outcome
the crucial impact of politics and timing
the significance of private sector engagement
implementation mechanisms
The chapters show how agreement-making has provided a forum in which indigenous groups can negotiate their needs and aspirations, including fundamental issues of recognition, inclusion and economic opportunity.
The authors include indigenous and non-indigenous academics, and others who have been involved in negotiating agreements.
Sharing Land and Resources: Modern Agreements and Treaties with Indigenous People in Settler States
Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer, Marcia Langton and Odette Mazel
Shared Citizenship and Self-Government in Canada: A Case Study of James Bay and Nunavik (Northern Quebec)
Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan
Keeping the Fires Burning: Grievance and Aspiration in the Ngai Tahu Settlement
Sir Tipene O’Regan, Lisa Palmer and Marcia Langton
‘Anchored to the Land’: Asserting and Recognising Aboriginal Jurisdiction in the Northwest Territories
Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan
Implementing and Monitoring Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the Minerals Industry: The Western Cape Communities Co-existence Agreement
Peter Crooke, Bruce Harvey and Marcia Langton
Planning for Agreement in Cape York Peninsula: The Pastoral Properties Planning Project
Diane Hafner, David Epworth and Matt Salmon
Authority, Knowledge and Values: Indigenous Nations Engagement in the Management of Natural Resources in the Murray-Darling Basin
Monica Morgan, Lisa Strelein and Jessica Weir
Returning Parna Wiru: Restitution of the Maralinga Lands to Traditional Owners in South Australia
Odette Mazel
Agreement-Making in the Local Context: Case Studies from Regional Australia
Kathryn Shain, William Genat and Ed Wensing
Settling Native Title: Pursuing a Comprehensive Regional Agreement in South West Australia
Stuart Bradfield
From Remnant Lands to Sustainable Communities: Negotiating Spaces for Indigenous Land and Jurisdiction in Darwin and Vancouver
Lisa Palmer and Maureen Tehan
