Yes, The Time is Now: Indigenous Nation Policy Making for Self-determined Futures

Jorgensen, M; Vivian, A; Compton, A; Murray, D; Evans, D; Gertz, J

Yes, The Time is Now: Indigenous Nation Policy Making for Self-determined Futures

Jorgensen, M

Vivian, A

Compton, A

Murray, D Evans, D Gertz, J

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Citation:: Public Policy and Indigenous Futures, 2023, 4, pp. 129-147
Issue Date:: 2023

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dc.contributor.author	Jorgensen, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8948-9150
dc.contributor.author	Vivian, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7177-0809
dc.contributor.author	Compton, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7516-8295
dc.contributor.author	Murray, D
dc.contributor.author	Evans, D
dc.contributor.author	Gertz, J
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dc.identifier.citation	Public Policy and Indigenous Futures, 2023, 4, pp. 129-147
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dc.description.abstract	There is a proliferation of ideas about the meaning and content of the term ‘Indigenous nation building’ (INB). Returning to the findings of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, INB refers to the exercising of decision-making authority and strengthening of a nation’s capacity for legitimate governing, which is associated with achieving a nation’s self-determined goals. In Australia, a number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations are doing exactly this. The Gunditjmara, Gugu Badhun, and Wiradjuri nations are working to rebuild their governing foundations, strengthen community governance and, in so doing, advance nation goals. These nations have been able to do so not because of settler colonial policy support, but because of their own Indigenous public policy. The Gunditjmara, Gugu Badhun and Wiradjuri nations have worked to seize available opportunities that assist in advancing their self-determined goals, and to reject those that do not. Current shifts in settler colonial government policy may offer further opportunities that nations can leverage from to support their strategising for self-governing.
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dc.title	Yes, The Time is Now: Indigenous Nation Policy Making for Self-determined Futures
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Abstract:

There is a proliferation of ideas about the meaning and content of the term ‘Indigenous nation building’ (INB). Returning to the findings of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, INB refers to the exercising of decision-making authority and strengthening of a nation’s capacity for legitimate governing, which is associated with achieving a nation’s self-determined goals. In Australia, a number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations are doing exactly this. The Gunditjmara, Gugu Badhun, and Wiradjuri nations are working to rebuild their governing foundations, strengthen community governance and, in so doing, advance nation goals. These nations have been able to do so not because of settler colonial policy support, but because of their own Indigenous public policy. The Gunditjmara, Gugu Badhun and Wiradjuri nations have worked to seize available opportunities that assist in advancing their self-determined goals, and to reject those that do not. Current shifts in settler colonial government policy may offer further opportunities that nations can leverage from to support their strategising for self-governing.

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