Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy

Edited by Sheryl Lightfoot, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Canada and Sarah Maddison, Director of the Australian Centre and Professor of Politics, University of Melbourne, Australia

Contents:

Introduction: Indigenous public policy in global context 1
Sheryl Lightfoot and Sarah Maddison

PART I INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
1 Violence as care: Indigenous policy and settler colonialism 18
Elizabeth Strakosch
2 Indigeneity, national unity, modernity and public policy in Africa 35
Elifuraha Laltaika
3 Self-determination, sovereignty and policy: how does a focus
on Indigenous rights transform policymaking? 53
Rauna Kuokkanen
4 Self-determination: at the heart of Indigenous humanisation 70
Aküm Longchari
5 Nation building and Indigenous institutions 98
Raymond Foxworth and Moroni Benally

PART II LAND AND LAW
6 Contemporary critical legal accounts of the relationship
between international law and domestic law and policy 121
Claire Charters, Fleur Te Aho and Tracey Whare
7 Treaty and public policy in the settler colonies 138
Anya Thomas and Sarah Maddison
8 Constitutional transformation and public policy for Indigenous
Peoples’ rights 157
Mukta S. Tamang
9 Indigenous land and water policy 177
Justin McCaul
10 On gendered ground: land and colonialism 198
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
11 Indigenous political economy and public policy 214
Frances Abele

PART III DOMESTIC POLICY
12 Public policy and Indigenous Peoples’ right to health in Brazil
and Mali 227
Mariam Wallet Med Aboubakrine
13 Kichwa Amazonian life routes in education: foregrounding the
‘inter’ in intercultural educational policy 242
Gioconda Coello and Diana Chávez Vargas
14 Indigenous food sovereignty: embodying nuu-chah-nulth
principles of ʔuʔaałuk (to take care of), ʔiisaak (to be
respectful) and hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is interconnected)
in policy and practice 253
Charlotte Coté
15 Indigenous language rights, frameworks and policies 272
Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla and Amanda Holmes
16 Indigenous Peoples in the justice system 294
Valmaine Toki

PART IV LEGACIES OF THE PAST, POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE
17 Indigenous rights and reconciliation: lessons from Australia 309
Samara Hand and Damien Short
18 Truth commissions and truth-telling 333
David B. MacDonald and Joanne Garcia-Moores
19 Indigenous resurgence 352
Adam J. Barker and Emma Battell Lowman
20 Quest for equality: redefining Indigenous–state relationships 373
Dalee Sambo Dorough

Index 399