UBC Press Rebuilding Native Nations book Paperback 384 pages

Prairie Provinces to southwestern deserts, from Mississippi and
Oklahoma to the northwest coast of the continent, Native peoples are
reclaiming their right to govern themselves and to shape their future
in their own ways. Challenging more than a century of colonial
controls, they are addressing severe social problems, building
sustainable economies, and reinvigorating Indigenous cultures. In
effect, they are rebuilding their nations according to their own
diverse and often innovative designs.
Produced by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management,
and Policy at the University of Arizona and the Harvard Project on
American Indian Economic Development, this book traces the contours of
that revolution as Native nations turn the dream of self-determination
into a practical reality. Part report, part analysis, part how-to
manual for Native leaders, it discusses strategies for governance and
community and economic development being employed by American Indian
nations and First Nations in Canada as they move to assert greater
control over their own affairs.
Rebuilding Native Nations provides guidelines for creating
new governance structures, rewriting constitutions, building justice
systems, launching nation-owned enterprises, encouraging citizen
entrepreneurs, developing new relationships with non-Native
governments, and confronting the crippling legacies of colonialism. For
nations that wish to join that revolution or for those who simply want
to understand the transformation now underway across Indigenous North
America, this book is a critical resource.