Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy

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

‘The fields of public policy and public administration have not yet caught up with the challenge of embedded Indigenous peoples. As an antidote to this blind spot this Handbook is essential reading for administrators and policy academics alike. The very existence of Indigenous peoples within a sphere of public policy immediately questions the sovereignty on which public policy depends. As the editors and contributors of this ground-breaking and timely book show in multiple instances, the legitimacy of public policy lies on shifting sands. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples gives a framework to the chapters in this book, and the right to self-determination of Indigenous peoples within multi-sovereign states has been accepted by the UN General Assembly. Still, many Indigenous peoples go further, challenging the power of the state to regulate their lives. Each of the contributions demands recognition and respect for Indigenous peoples, with public policy generated in their own terms and reflecting their own cultures, processes and values. The many and diverse chapters of this book, from all over the world, demonstrating combined wisdom with many Indigenous contributions, mount a powerful argument for complacent governments, bureaucrats and academics to sit up and listen. They should keep this Handbook in their desk drawer, it points to the future.’

• Contents:Introduction: Indigenous public policy in global context 1Sheryl Lightfoot and Sarah MaddisonPART I INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE1 Violence as care: Indigenous policy and settler colonialism 18Elizabeth Strakosch2 Indigeneity, national unity, modernity and public policy in Africa 35Elifuraha Laltaika3 Self-determination, sovereignty and policy: how does a focuson Indigenous rights transform policymaking? 53Rauna Kuokkanen4 Self-determination: at the heart of Indigenous humanisation 70Aküm Longchari5 Nation building and Indigenous institutions 98Raymond Foxworth and Moroni BenallyPART II LAND AND LAW6 Contemporary critical legal accounts of the relationshipbetween international law and domestic law and policy 121Claire Charters, Fleur Te Aho and Tracey Whare7 Treaty and public policy in the settler colonies 138Anya Thomas and Sarah Maddison8 Constitutional transformation and public policy for IndigenousPeoples’ rights 157Mukta S. Tamang9 Indigenous land and water policy 177Justin McCaul10 On gendered ground: land and colonialism 198Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez11 Indigenous political economy and public policy 214Frances AbelePART III DOMESTIC POLICY12 Public policy and Indigenous Peoples’ right to health in Braziland Mali 227Mariam Wallet Med Aboubakrine13 Kichwa Amazonian life routes in education: foregrounding the‘inter’ in intercultural educational policy 242Gioconda Coello and Diana Chávez Vargas14 Indigenous food sovereignty: embodying nuu-chah-nulthprinciples of ʔuʔaałuk (to take care of), ʔiisaak (to berespectful) and hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is interconnected)in policy and practice 253Charlotte Coté15 Indigenous language rights, frameworks and policies 272Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla and Amanda Holmes16 Indigenous Peoples in the justice system 294Valmaine TokiPART IV LEGACIES OF THE PAST, POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE17 Indigenous rights and reconciliation: lessons from Australia 309Samara Hand and Damien Short18 Truth commissions and truth-telling 333David B. MacDonald and Joanne Garcia-Moores19 Indigenous resurgence 352Adam J. Barker and Emma Battell Lowman20 Quest for equality: redefining Indigenous–state relationships 373Dalee Sambo DoroughIndex 399