Aboriginal Land Tenure Reforms In Canada: A Discussion of “Beyond the Indian Act”
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Business And Economics, Collateral, Economic development, Empowerment, Ethnic Interests, Indigenous peoples, Land tenure, Legislation, Native North Americans, Property rights, Aboriginal Land Tenure, Aboriginal land tenure reforms, Indian Act, Indigenous economy, Indigenous land issues, Indigenous economic leadership, Indigenous community development, Indigenous community economic development, Indigenous communities in CanadaAbstract
In the words of Hernando De Soto, the co-chair with Madeline Albright of the UN Committee for Legal Empowerment of the Poor, "You don't have to travel to Zambia or Peru to see dead capital. All you need to do is visit a reserve in Canada. First Nation people own assets, but not with the same instruments as other Canadians. They're frozen into an Indian Act of the 1870s so they can't easily trade their valuable resources."
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