Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

This book is a clear, compelling, and evidence-based assessment of the effectiveness of co-management boards in providing Indigenous peoples with genuine influence over land and wildlife decisions affecting their traditional territories.

Graham White is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He has been researching and writing about the politics of Northern Canada since the 1980s and has published widely on Canadian politics, especially at the provincial and territorial level. His books include Made in Nunavut (with Jack Hicks), which was shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association’s Smiley Prize for the best book in Canadian politics, and Cycling into Saigon (with David Cameron), which was shortlisted for the Donner Foundation Prize for the best book in Canadian public policy. He is a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and a former English-language editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

G. Gagnon:

His lucid treatment of critics and the continuing evolution of the boards up to the present is revelatory. This work is seminal for Canadians and instructive for states attempting to implement similar policies, an important contribution to the literature.

Paul Nadasdy, professor of anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous studies, Cornell University:
In this important book, Graham White deftly weaves together meticulous research and his own experience to tell a compelling story about the emergence of land claims boards and the growing pains of their first twenty years. The result is a rich analysis of one of the central institutions of comprehensive land claims agreements and their role in the evolution of treaty federalism in Canada.

Ken Coates, Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the University of Saskatchewan and co-author of From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians:
One of the best works of political science ever produced on the Canadian North.