Indigenous Land Claims and Economic Development

American Indian Quarterly/summer & fall 2004/vol. 28, nos. 3 & 4

15 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2014

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Robert B. Anderson

University of Regina

Bob Kayseas

First Nations University

Léo‐Paul Dana

Montpellier Business School

Kevin Hindle

Centre for Entrepreneurship Innovation and Community, Deakin University

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Date Written: September 6, 2014

Abstract

The current socioeconomic circumstances of the Aboriginal people in Canada are abysmal. According to the 1991 census, 42 percent of Aboriginal people received social welfare, as opposed to 8 percent of the Canadian population as a whole. In the same year unemployment among Aboriginal people stood at 24.6 percent, almost two and one-half times the national rate of 10.2 percent. The Aboriginal population will rise by 52 percent between 1991 and 2016, while the working age Aboriginal population will increase by 72 percent (compared to 22 percent and 23 percent respectively for non-Aboriginal people). This means that as bad as these circumstances are, the prospects for the future are worse unless something is done to change the relative socioeconomic circumstance of Aboriginal people vis-à-vis other Canadians.

Aboriginal people in Canada have not been standing idly by accepting their socioeconomic circumstances. They have established development objectives and a process for attaining them. Entrepreneurship — the identification of unmet or undersatisfied needs and related opportunities and the creation of enterprises, products, and services in response to these opportunities — lies at the heart of this Aboriginal approach. Through entrepreneurship and business development they believe they can attain their socioeconomic objectives. These objectives include (1) greater control of activities on their traditional lands; (2) self-determination and an end to dependency through economic self-sufficiency; (3) the preservation and strengthening of traditional values and the application of these in economic development and business activities; and, of course, (4) improved socioeconomic circumstance for individuals, families, and communities.

Suggested Citation

Anderson, Robert B. and Kayseas, Bob and Dana, Léo‐Paul and Hindle, Kevin, Indigenous Land Claims and Economic Development (September 6, 2014). American Indian Quarterly/summer & fall 2004/vol. 28, nos. 3 & 4, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2492619

Robert B. Anderson (Contact Author)

University of Regina ( email )

3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, Saskatchewan S4S OA2 S4S 0A1
Canada

Bob Kayseas

First Nations University ( email )

Canada

Léo‐Paul Dana

Montpellier Business School ( email )

2300 Avenue des Moulins
Montpellier, 34080
France

Kevin Hindle

Centre for Entrepreneurship Innovation and Community, Deakin University ( email )

75 Pigdons Road
Victoria, Victoria 3216
Australia

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