Towards Social and Economic Prosperity: Political Legitimacy in Northern Indigenous Governance

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: This project will focus on the community of Deline, Northwest Territories, a community of 600 Dene people situated on the Southwestern shore of Great Bear Lake. A group of Deline Elders wish to publish an academic book that describes their philosophy of Dene governance and ha...

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Main Author: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Other Authors: GAPSSHRC
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Insight Development Grant
Implementation
Community Development
2012
Successful SSHRC Grant
Governments
Canada
Sustainability
Slavey Language
Indigenous Peoples
Northern development
Self Government
Northern Communities
Aboriginal Policy
Oral Tradition
Dene Language
Grant application
Aboriginal Research
Public Administration
Aboriginal
IDG
North
Government
Social Anthropology
1970-2014
Indigenous Governance
Northern Territories
Self Governance
Environment
Northwest Territories
Great Bear Lake
Deline
Online Access:https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/a95c680e-70ca-4eff-9e04-86550a7a0651
https://doi.org/10.7939/R37659J8R
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Summary:SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: This project will focus on the community of Deline, Northwest Territories, a community of 600 Dene people situated on the Southwestern shore of Great Bear Lake. A group of Deline Elders wish to publish an academic book that describes their philosophy of Dene governance and have asked me to work with them to achieve this goal. An orienting oral tradition of Deline Got'ine (the people of the place where the waters flow) is the Waterheart story, or Tudzi. It describes the journey of a man to the heart of Great Bear Lake. The journey centres around the teachings of the lake's heart, teachings recognized by the people the people as foundational laws of governance. Over several years, the Elders worked with various government departments to apply this philosophy of governance to the Great Bear Lake Watershed Management Plan (GBLWMP), part of the land management approach undertaken in the context of the Sahtu Comprehensive Land Claim. However, owing to its comprehensiveness, the GBLWMP has not been implemented by the legal authorities charged with its care, primarily due to the complexity of managing from an ecological approach rather than one predicated on narrowly defined areas of legal and regulatory responsibility.

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