Indigenous Economics
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From ![]() NEW! Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capital CravingsColonialism’s Sixteenth-Century Beginnings Planted From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the beginnings of capitalism and colonialism in Canada, and the effects of these developments on its Indigenous inhabitants. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 1: Radical Indigenous Economic Exclusion |
This chapter explores how the process of “othering”, inherent in the policies of the Indian Act, has reinforced systemic inequality and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in Canada. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 2: Deconstructing Indian Act Economics |
This chapter explores how the Indian Act has historically restricted Indigenous economic development, defines the concept of “Indian Act economics”, and outlines its lasting negative … | Carol Anne Hilton | 22 | 2025 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 4: The Actual Cost of Doing Nothing |
This chapter introduces the concept of the “cost of doing nothing” and its implications for Indigenous economic development and social inclusion. | Carol Anne Hilton | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 5: The Indigenous Economic Media Narrative |
This chapter exposes the false narratives used throughout Canadian history resulting from Indian Act policies that perpetuate harm and injustice to Indigenous communities. | Carol Anne Hilton | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 6: An Indigenous Perspective-Shaping Meaning |
This chapter, through behavioral analysis and anthropomorphizing of the Act, explores how Indian Act economics has impacted Indigenous social and economic development. | Carol Anne Hilton | 28 | 2025 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 7: Stoking the Fire – Designing for Radical Inclusion |
This chapter explores the Indigenous economic and governance structures that, by centering Indigenous self-determination, dismantle Indian Act economics. | Carol Anne Hilton | 42 | 2025 | $4.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 8: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power |
This chapter highlights initiatives that would help make up $100 billion in Indigenous economic value, such as leveraging cultural capital, advancing sustainable development, and more. | Carol Anne Hilton | 54 | 2025 | $5.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Conclusion: The Happiest Future |
This chapter provides an overview of the Indigenous economic value creation process. Includes endnotes and an appendix, which explores Indigenous economic pathways that center UNDRIP policies and … | Carol Anne Hilton | 42 | 2025 | $4.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Diversity and the DishFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter outlines the many variations within Indigenous societies affected by factors such as geographic location, war and access to resources and, trade and the differences in land use, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Introduction: The Indigenomics Manifestation |
Hilton introduces the foundations of Indigenomics and the themes explored in the chapters to follow, highlighting key factors that support the emergence of Indigenous economic power. | Carol Anne Hilton | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Money, Land, and Law in a Nineteenth-Century Capitalist DominionFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter addresses the growth of taxation in Canada in the late nineteenth century to finance the expanding role of the capitalist state infrastructure of roads and bridges and institutions … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
![]() NEW! The Rise of Indigenous Economic PowerDeconstructing Indian Act Economics |
In this book Carol Anne Hilton, author of Indigenomics, explores growing Indigenous economic power achieved despite systemic barriers resulting from the racist policies of the Indian Act. … | Carol Anne Hilton | 266 | 2025 | View |








