Frances Abele is a Senior Research Fellow and former Academic Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. A Professor and former Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Dr. Abele\u2019s research interests include Aboriginal-state relations, Aboriginal economic development, northern political economy, and community development and training. She is a former Deputy Director of Research for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and research fellow at the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Current research projects include Aboriginal self-government and the federation; sustainable development in northern Canada, including the definition of new public policy options; the northern social economy; federal northern development policy, and the further development of northern democracy.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Dr. Abele was designated Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University.<\/p>\n
“?ekwe He Naida\/Living with Caribou: Reflections on Dene Knowledge and Policy Development in the Context of Crisis” (with Walter Bayha, Ken Caine and Deborah Simmons). book chapter in preparation<\/p>\n
“An Arctic Lens: Circumpolar Research on Regional Economic Development” (with David Muddiman) book chapter in preparation.<\/p>\n
“Responsible Investment in the Canadian Territorial North” (with Joshua Gladstone)<\/p>\n
“Seeing Like a Community: Social Science Research in Northern Communities” with Sheena Kennedy<\/p>\n
“State and Society in a Northern Capital: Yellowknife\u2019s Social Economy in Hard Times” (with Jerald Sabin). Journal article to be submitted to Community Development Journal.<\/p>\n
“An Approach to Understanding Modern Community Economies in Inuit Nunungaat” (with Sheena Kennedy).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Uses of History\u201d ms. completed and under revision for submission to a journal (TBD).<\/p>\n
Reconfederating Canada: Aboriginal Self-Determination and Canadian Federalism<\/em> with Michael J. Prince.<\/p>\n Soliloquy and Dialogue:\u00a0 The Evolution of Public Policy Discourse on Aboriginal Issues<\/em>\u00a0with Caroline Dittburner and Katherine Graham.\u00a0 Ottawa:\u00a0 Canada Communications Group, 1996. 351 pgs.<\/p>\n Gathering Strength:\u00a0 Native Employment Training in the Northwest Territories.<\/em>\u00a0Calgary:\u00a0 Arctic Institute of North America, 1989. 258 pgs.<\/p>\n Care, Cooperation, and Activism: Cases from the Northern Social Economy<\/em>. (co-editor with Chris Southcott). Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, forthcoming (accepted October 1, 2014).<\/p>\n Canada, the European Union and the Arctic<\/i> Special issue of The Northern Review, guest editor. (Spring 2014).<\/p>\n Northern Exposure: Powers, Peoples and Projects. <\/em>(co-editor with Tom Courchene, France St. Hilaire, Leslie Seidle) Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2009.<\/p>\n How Ottawa Spends 1991-92:\u00a0 The Politics of Competitiveness<\/em>. (editor)\u00a0 Ottawa:\u00a0 Carleton University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n How Ottawa Spends 1991-92:\u00a0 The Politics of Fragmentation. <\/em>(editor)\u00a0 Ottawa:\u00a0 Carleton University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n \u201cLanguage, Distance, Democracy: Development Decision-Making and Northern\u00a0 Communications\u201d (with Sheena Kennedy Dalseg) The Northern Review. Forthcoming.\u00a0 Accepted June 2015<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n “What Now? Future Federal Responsibilities Towards Aboriginal People Living in Cities”( with Katherine Graham) aboriginal policy studies <\/em>\u00a0v 1 n 1 spring 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cThe State and the Northern Social Economy: Research Prospects\u201d The Northern Review<\/em>\u00a0 No. 30 (Spring 2009) pp 37-58.<\/p>\n \u201cInuit Diplomacy in the Global Era: The Strengths of Multilateral Internationalism\u201d (with Thierry Rodon) Canadian Foreign Policy<\/em> 13:3 Spring 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cFour Pathways to Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada\u201d (with Michael J. Prince) American Review of Canadian Studies<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 36:4 pp 568-597 Winter 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Public Education to Social Marketing: The Evolution of the Canadian Heritage Anti-Racism Social Marketing Program\u201d (with Judith Madill) Journal of Non Profit and Public Sector Marketing<\/em> 17 (1\/2) (2005).<\/p>\n “Kanadskii opyt uluchsheniia polozeniia korennykh narodov na rynke truda,” (Canadian experience in improving the position of native peoples in the labour market), Region: Ekonomika i sotsiologiia (<\/span>The Region: Economics and Sociology, <\/em>no. 4 (2004), pp. 200-211.<\/p>\n “And Now for a Northern Solution?\u00a0 The Transfer of Forest Fire Control and Forest Management to the Governments of the Northwest Territories and Yukon”\u00a0 The Northern Review<\/em>\u00a0 5 Winter 1990, pp. 82-102.<\/p>\n “Canadian Contradictions: Forty Years of Northern Political Development”, Arctic<\/em>\u00a0 41(4),\u00a0 Winter 1987,\u00a0 pp. 310-320; reprinted in Kenneth Coates and William R. Morrison, editors, Interpreting Canada’s North:\u00a0 Selected Readings.\u00a0 <\/em>Toronto:\u00a0 Copp\u00a0Clark Pitman, 1989.<\/p>\n “The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories: Regional Government and Federal Policy\u00a0 (with M. O. Dickerson) Canadian Public Policy<\/em>,\u00a0 March 1985,\u00a0 pp. 1-15.<\/p>\n “Interdepartmental Coordination and Northern Development” with E.J. Dosman, Canadian Public Administration<\/em> 24(3), Fall 1981, pp. 428-451.<\/p>\n “Offshore Diplomacy in the Canadian Arctic:\u00a0 The Beaufort Sea and Lancaster Sound”, with E.J. Dosman,\u00a0 Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em> 16(3), Summer 1981,pp. 3-15.<\/p>\n \u201cState Institutions and the Social Economy in Northern Canada\u201d in Chris Southcott, ed. Northern Communities Working Together: The Social Economy of Canada\u2019s North.<\/em> University of Toronto Press, 2015.<\/p>\n “The Immediate and Lasting Impact of the Inquiry into the Construction of a Mackenzie Valley Pipeline” in Greg Inwood and Carolyn Johns, eds. Canadian Public Inquiries<\/i>.\u00a0 University of Toronto Press, \u00a02014.<\/p>\n “Intergovernmentalism and the Well-Being of First Nations” in Ghislain Otis and Martin Papillon, eds. The Relational Dimension of Indigenous Governance and Federalism: Theories and Practices<\/i>.\u00a0 Laval University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n “Promises to Keep: Federal Spending on Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in the Territorial North” (with Sheena Kennedy Dalseg and Joshua Gladstone) in G. Bruce Doern and Chris Stoney, eds. How Ottawa Spends 2013-14: Mid-Term Blues and Long Term Plans.<\/i> Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cFour Ways to See It: Aboriginal People and Public Policy in Selected Ontario Cities\u201d (with Russell LaPointe, David Leech, Michael McCrossan) in Evelyn Peters, ed. Fields of Governance #5:\u00a0 Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in Canadian Municipalities<\/em>. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, \u00a02012.<\/p>\n \u201cFederal Urban Aboriginal Policy: The Challenge of Viewing the Stars in the Urban Night Sky\u201d (with Katherine Graham) in Evelyn Peters, ed. Fields of Governance #5:\u00a0 Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in Canadian Municipalities<\/em>. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n “Use it or Lose it? The Conservatives’ Northern Strategy” in Bruce Doern and Chris Stoney, eds. 2011. How Ottawa Spends 2011-12: Cutting Fat or Slicing Pork? <\/em>Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cAboriginal Workers and the Recession\u201d (with Senada Delic) in G. Bruce Doern and Chris Stoney, eds. How Ottawa Spends 2009-2010.<\/em> Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 163-192.<\/p>\n \u201cNorthern Development: Past, Present and Future\u201d in Frances Abele, Tom Courchene, France St. Hilaire, Leslie Seidle, eds. Northern Exposure: Powers, Peoples and Projects. <\/em>Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2009, pp 19-65.<\/p>\n \u201cIntroduction and Overview\u201d (with Tom Courchene, France St-Hilaire, Leslie Seidle) in Frances Abele, Tom Courchene, France St-Hilaire, Leslie Seidle, eds. Northern Exposure: Powers, Peoples and Projects. <\/em>Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2009 pp 3-18.<\/p>\n \u201cThe New Northern Policy Universe\u201d (with Tom Courchene, France St-Hilaire, Leslie Seidle) in Frances Abele, Tom Courchene, France St-Hilaire, Leslie Seidle, eds. Northern Exposure: Powers, Peoples and Projects. <\/em>Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2009 pp 561-594.<\/p>\n \u201cComing in from the Cold: Inuit Diplomacy and Global Citizenship\u201d with Thierry Rodon, in J. Marshall Beier, ed. Indigenous Diplomacy<\/em> Palgrave, 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cA Little Imagination Required: How Canada Funds Territorial and Northern Aboriginal Governments\u201d with Michael J. Prince, in Allan Maslove, ed. How Ottawa Spends 2008-09: A More Orderly Federalism? <\/em>Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Future of Fiscal Federalism: Funding Regimes for Aboriginal Self-Government\u201d with Michael J. Prince, in Yale Belanger, Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada.<\/em> Saskatoon: Purich Publishers, 2008.<\/p>\n “The Evolution of the March 21 Anti-Racism Social Marketing Program: A Case”, (with Judith Madill) in Hastings, G., ed. Social Marketing<\/em>, London:Elsevier, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond the Blue Horizon: Northern Development Policy in the Mulroney Years\u201d in Raymond Blake, ed. Examining the Legacy: The Era of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney<\/em>.\u00a0 McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cIndigenous People in the Cities of Northern Canada: The Importance of the Rural\u00a0 Economic Base\u201d in Peter Solomon, ed New Actors in Northern Federations: Cities, Mergers, and Aboriginal Governance in Russia and Canada<\/em>. Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto, 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cBetween Respect and Control: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Public Policy\u201d in Michael Orsini and Miriam Smith, eds. Critical Policy Studies: Contemporary Canadian Approaches<\/em>. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cConstructing Political Spaces for Aboriginal Communities in Canada\u201d (with Michael J. Prince) in Ian Peach, ed. <\/em>Constructing Tomorrow\u2019s Federalism: New Routes to Effective Governance.<\/em>\u00a0 Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cSymbolism, Surfacing, Succession and Substance: Martin\u2019s Aboriginal Policy Style\u201d with Russell LaPointe and Michael J. Prince, in Bruce Doern, ed. How Ottawa Spends 2005-06 <\/em>\u00a0Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2005, pp.99-120.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Smartest Steward? Indigenous People and Petroleum-Based Economic Development in Canada\u2019s North\u201d in G. Bruce Doern, ed. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development.<\/em> Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp.223-245.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>Paying for Self-Determination: Aboriginal Peoples, Self-Government and Fiscal Relations in Canada.\u201d<\/strong> With Michael J. Prince. In Michael Murphy, ed. Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations, Canada: The State of the Federation 2003<\/em>. Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen\u2019s University, 2005, 237-263. (second author)<\/p>\n \u201cBelonging in the New World: Imperialism, Property and Citizenship\u201d\u00a0 Gerald Kernerman and Philip Resnick, eds. Insiders and Outsiders<\/em>: Essays In Honour of Alan C. Cairns.<\/em>\u00a0 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005, pp. 213-226.<\/p>\n “Aboriginal Governance and Canadian Federalism: A To-Do List for Canada” with Michael J. Prince in Francois Rocher and Miriam Smith, eds. New Trends in Canadian Federalism.<\/em> 2nd<\/sup> ed. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003, pp 135-166.<\/p>\n \u201cAlternative Futures: Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Federalism\u201d with Michael J. Prince in Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad, eds. <\/strong>Canadian Federalism in the Millennium: Performance, Effectiveness and Legitimacy <\/em>Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 220-237.<\/p>\n “Lessons from the Policy Discourse on Aboriginal Education,” with Carolyn Dittburner and Katherine Graham, in Marlene Brant Castellano, Lynne Davis and Louise Lahache (eds.) Aboriginal Education: Fulfilling the Promise<\/em>. UBC Press, 2000. Pp. 3-24.<\/p>\n “Funding Aboriginal Government in Canada: Recent Developments” with Michael J. Prince, in Harvey Lazar, ed. Canada: The State of the Federation 1999-2000: Toward a New Mission Statement for Canadian Fiscal Federalism.<\/em>\u00a0 McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000. Pp.337-370.<\/p>\n “The Importance of Consent: Indigenous Peoples’ Politics in Canada” in James Bickerton and Alain Gagnon, Canadian Politics<\/em>, 3rd. ed. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1999. Pp. 443-462.<\/p>\n “Negotiating Canada: Thirty Years of Change in Aboriginal Policy” with Katherine Graham and Allan Maslove in Leslie Pal, ed. How Ottawa Spends 1999-2000<\/em>. Ottawa, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 251-292.<\/p>\n “Understanding What Happened Here:\u00a0 The Political Economy of Indigenous Peoples” in Wallace Clement, ed. Understanding Canada:\u00a0 Building on the New Political Economy<\/em>.\u00a0 Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996, pp. 118-140.<\/p>\n “Various Matters of Nationhood:\u00a0 Aboriginal Peoples and Canada Outside Quebec” in Kenneth McRoberts, ed. Beyond Quebec:\u00a0 Taking Stock of Canada.<\/em>\u00a0 Kingston and Montreal:\u00a0 McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995. Pp. 297-312.<\/p>\n “Wrestling with History:\u00a0 Prospects for Peace in Aboriginal-Canada Relations”\u00a0 in Jerry Haar and Edgar J. Dosman, eds.\u00a0 A Dynamic Partnership:\u00a0 Canada’s Changing Role in the Hemisphere.<\/em>\u00a0 University of Miami North-South Centre:\u00a0 Miami,\u00a01993. Pp. 131-146.<\/p>\n “The Politics of Competitiveness” in Frances Abele, ed.\u00a0 How Ottawa Spends 1991-92:\u00a0 The Politics of Competitiveness<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0 Carleton University Press:\u00a0 Ottawa, 1992. Pp. 1-22.<\/p>\n “The Politics of Fragmentation” in Frances Abele, ed. \u00a0How Ottawa Spends 1990-91:<\/span>\u00a0 The Politics of Fragmentation<\/em>.\u00a0 Carleton University Press, Ottawa, May 1991. Pp. 1-31.<\/p>\n “Who Benefits?\u00a0 The Transfer of Responsibility for Fire Control and Forest Management from the Federal to the Territorial Governments” in Gurston Dacks, ed.\u00a0 Devolution and Constitutional Development in the Canadian North.<\/em>\u00a0 Carleton University Press: \u00a0Ottawa, 1990. Pp. 43-70.<\/p>\n “The Democratic Potential in Administrative Expansion” in Gurston Dacks, ed.\u00a0 Devolution and Constitutional Development in the Canadian North.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Carleton University Press:\u00a0 Ottawa, 1990. Pp. 295-316.<\/p>\n “High Politics is Not Enough:\u00a0 Services for Aboriginal Peoples in Alberta and Ontario” (with Katherine Graham) in David Hawkes, ed.\u00a0 Defining the Responsibilities:\u00a0 Federal and Provincial Governments and Aboriginal Peoples.<\/em>\u00a0 Carleton University Press:\u00a0 Ottawa, 1989. Pp. 32.<\/p>\n “Canada as a ‘White Settler Colony’:\u00a0 What About Natives and Immigrants?”\u00a0 with D. Stasiulis in W. Clement and G. Williams, eds. The New Political Economy, <\/em>McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989, pp. 240-277.<\/p>\n “Confronting ‘Harsh and Inescapable Facts”:\u00a0 Indigenous Peoples and the Militarization of the Circumpolar Region”, in E.J. Dosman, ed.\u00a0 Sovereignty and Security in the Arctic.<\/em>\u00a0 Routledge:\u00a0 New York, 1989,\u00a0 pp. 176-193<\/p>\n “Plus Que \u00c7a Change:\u00a0 The North and Native Peoples”, with K. Graham, How Ottawa Spends 1988-89,<\/em>\u00a0 Carleton University Press, 1988, pp. 113-138.<\/p>\n “Conservative Northern Development Policy:\u00a0 A New Broom in an Old Bottleneck”, in Michael J. Prince, ed.\u00a0 Tracking the Tories:\u00a0 How Ottawa Spends 1986-1987,<\/em>\u00a0 Methuen 1986,\u00a0 pp. 149-178.<\/p>\n “Dene-Government Relations:\u00a0 The Development of a New Political Minority” in Neil Nevitte and Allan J. Kornberg, eds.\u00a0 Minorities and the Canadian State,<\/em>Mosaic Press, 1985, pp. 136-172.<\/p>\n “Sources of Hope” Comment on Les r\u00e9lations interculturelles in John Trent and Robert Young, After the Referendum:\u00a0 What is the Path Ahead?<\/em>\u00a0 Ottawa:\u00a0 University of Ottawa Press, 1996, 4 pgs<\/p>\n \u201cBest Chance, Perilous Passages: Recent Writing About Nunavut\u201d\u00a0 International Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em> 21 (Spring 2000) pp 197-212.<\/p>\n “Destination Known, Route Uncertain: Challenges in Understanding the New Northern Economy”\u00a0 Northern Public Affairs <\/b><\/i>2(1) Spring 2013.<\/p>\n “Policy Research in Dangerous Times” Northern Public Affairs <\/i>1(1) Spring 2012.<\/p>\n “Homeless in the Homeland: The Situation for Indigenous People in Canada’s North” (with Nick Falvo and Arlene Hache) Parity<\/em> 2010 Volume 29 pp 21-23.<\/p>\n “Canada Needs a University in the North” (with F. Leslie Seidle) Nunatsiaq News<\/em> October 15, 2010.\u00a0 1 pg.<\/p>\n “The Human Dimension of Arctic Foreign Policy –Time to Build a Northern University”\u00a0 (with F. Leslie Seidle) The Hill Times<\/em> September 13, 2010.<\/p>\n “It is Time to Build a Northern University” Montreal Gazette <\/em>August 30, 2010.<\/p>\n “A Strong North Must Be Prosperous” (with Tom Courchene, France St-Hilaire, F. Leslie Seidle) Ottawa Citizen <\/em>June 15, 2009 and subsequently a number of other CanWest newspapers.<\/p>\n \u201cConstructing Political Spaces for Aboriginal Communities in Canada after 1992\u201d (with Michael J. Prince, in Constructing Tomorrow\u2019s Federalism\/Batir le Federalisme de Demain. <\/em>Post Conference Magazine. Regina: Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy in collaboration with Centre for Research and Information on Canada. 2004. 2 pgs.<\/p>\n \u201cUnderstanding a Changing North\u201d Guest Column, Canada<\/em> Research Horizons<\/em> Winter 2004. 1 pg.<\/p>\n \u201cCounsel for Canadian Federalism: Aboriginal Governments and the Council of the Federation\u201d With Michael J.Prince. Constructive and Cooperatiive Federalism: A Series of Commentaries on the Council of the Federation. <\/em>Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, Queen\u2019s University and Institute for Research on Public Policy. 2003. Web publication. 31 ms. pgs.<\/p>\n \u201cAboriginal Peoples in Northern Canada: The Peaceful Revolution Meets Global Capital\u201d in The Canadian North: Embracing Change.<\/em> The CRIC Papers: Centre for Research and Information on Canada, June 2002, pp. 9-15.<\/p>\n “Small Nations and Democracy’s Prospects: Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Greenland” Inroads<\/em> 10, 2000, pp. 137-149.<\/p>\n “A Time to Celebrate” Editorial in Arctic<\/em>, 1 pg., Winter 1999. (Arctic<\/em> is a refereed journal, but my editorials were commissioned, not peer reviewed.)<\/p>\n “Traditional Knowledge in Practice” Editorial in Arctic<\/em>, 2 pgs., Winter 1997.<\/p>\n “Why Jean Chretien -and the Canadian people- should read the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples” Canada Watch<\/em>. Summer 1997.<\/p>\n “Beyond Oka:\u00a0 Dimensions of Mohawk Sovereignty”.\u00a0 Interview with Kahn-Tineta Horn,\u00a0 Studies in Political Economy<\/em>\u00a0 36\u00a0 June 1991. (Studies in Political Economy<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal, but this interview was commissioned, not peer reviewed.)<\/p>\n “The Danger to the North”.\u00a0 Policy Options<\/em>\u00a0 11(1)\u00a0 January\/February 1990\u00a0 (with Peter Usher).<\/p>\n “Aboriginal Peoples and Economic Development:\u00a0 Is It Business as Usual?”.\u00a0 Financial Times<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0 16 September 1989\u00a0 (with Katherine Graham).<\/p>\n “Native Claims Settlements and Native Training: Overview, Issues and a Model” with P. Kulchyski.\u00a0 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Population Issues in Arctic Societies<\/em>. Copenhagen and Montreal, 1985, 21 pgs.<\/p>\n “A Framework for Mutual Benefit: Social and Political Research in the North” in K. de la Barre, ed. Proceedings: Northern Population Workshop IV<\/em>. Frobisher Bay and Montreal, 1982, pp. 8-12.<\/p>\n Northern Aboriginal Youth Employment.<\/i> (with Senada Delic) Report prepared as part of SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis grant dissemination. February 2014.<\/p>\n Is Evaluation a Tool for Social Justice? Reconciliation? Control? Reflections on the Canadian Experience in Indigenous Affairs<\/em>. in Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation.\u00a0<\/i>Roundtable Proceedings. Canberra: Australian Government.\u00a0Productivity Commission, 2013. Presented at Policy Roundtable: \u00a0Lessons to be learnt \u2014 how evaluation can lead to better Indigenous policies <\/em>Canberra 22-23 October 2012.<\/p>\n Literature Review: Bilingual Education. <\/em>Prepared for the National Committee on Inuit Education. (with Katherine Graham) March\u00a0 2010.<\/p>\n Literature Review: Building Post-Secondary Success.<\/em> Prepared for the National Committee on Inuit Education. (with Katherine Graham) March\u00a0 2010.<\/p>\n Literature Review: Inuit-Centred Education. <\/em>Prepared for the National Committee on Inuit Education. (with Katherine Graham) March\u00a0 2010<\/p>\n Like An Ill-Fitting Boot: Government, Governance and Management Systems in the Contemporary Indian Act<\/em>. National Centre on First Nations Governance, 2007.<\/p>\n The Feasibility of a Northern Policy Research Institution<\/em> Consultation and Report for the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. 2006<\/p>\n First Nations Governance Pilot Projects: Challenge and Innovation. Volume 1 and 2. <\/em>Carleton Centre for Community Innovation for the National Centre for First Nations Governance, 2005. (with Katherine Graham, Alex Ker, Craig Brown, Chris Stoney). 200 pages. Web-published at http:\/\/www.fngovernance.org.\/.<\/p>\n Aboriginal Peoples and a New Social Architecture for Canada\u2019s 21st<\/sup> Century.<\/em>\u00a0 Canadian Policy Research Networks. 2004. Web-published at http:\/\/www.cprn.com\/.<\/p>\n Serving the Public North of 60. <\/em>with Katherine Graham. Institute of Public Administration of Canada Report. Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2003.<\/p>\n Talking with Canadians: Citizen Engagement and Social Union Framework Agreement. <\/em>with Katherine Graham, Alex Ker, Antonia Maioni, Susan Phillips, Ottawa: Canadian Council for Social Development, 1998. 90 pgs.<\/p>\n Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Social and Economic Wellbeing in the Ottawa-Carleton\/Outaouais Region<\/em>, with Katherine Graham and Alex Ker, CSTIER Diversification Group Papers Series, 1999. 55 pgs.<\/p>\n A New Economic Development Policy for the North?\u00a0 The Impact of the Free Trade Agreement<\/em>, with Peter Usher, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 1988, 46 pgs.<\/p>\n Northern Politics Review<\/em> with W.H. Critchley, Northern Political Studies Programme, University of Calgary, 1983 and 1984, 95 and 125 pgs.<\/p>\n J. R. Miller, ed. Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada. <\/em>Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Review published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n Douglas Holmes, Northerners: Profiles of People in the Northwest Territories<\/em>. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1989.\u00a0 Review published in Arctic<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Rebecca Aird, ed. Running the North: The Getting and Spending of Public Finances by Canada’s Territorial Governments<\/em>. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, c. 1989. Review published in Arctic<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Frank Cassidy and Robert Bish, Indian Government: Its Meaning in Practice<\/em>.\u00a0 Lantzville and Halifax: Oolichan Books and The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1989.\u00a0 Review published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/em> 23:3 (September 1990).<\/p>\n Dara Culhane Speck, An Error in Judgment<\/em>. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1987.\u00a0 Review published in Resources for Feminist Research<\/em> 17:3 (September 1988).<\/p>\n “Canadian Native Urbanization and Non-Reserve Populations” an entry in The Native North American Almanac, <\/em>2nd<\/sup> edition. Gale Research, 2000. (revision of earlier entry)<\/p>\n “Canadian Native Urbanization and Non-Reserve Populations” an entry in The Native North American Almanac<\/em>. Gale Research 1994.<\/p>\n “Resource Use Conflicts in Canada” an entry in The Native North American Almanac.<\/em> Gale Research, 1994.<\/p>\n \u201cDigital Indigenous Democracy: Deliberatitve Democratic Decision-Making and Resource Development\u201d (with Sheena Kennedy Dalseg) Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Ottawa, June 2, 2015.<\/p>\n “What if we were wrong?” Presented to the Conference in Honour of Graham White, University of Toronto, May 31, 2014.<\/p>\n “Federal Northern Development Policy and Community Development” Invited panelist, Canada,\u00a0Here and Now: Puttling the Local into Perspective. Eighth Annual Peace, Conflict and Justice Conference.\u00a0Munk Centre, University of Toronto, February 1, 2014.<\/p>\n “Challenges in Understanding the New Northern Economy”\u00a0 Keynote Address, Pathways to Prosperity: Northern Governance and Economy Conference. <\/em>Yellowknife, October 8-10, 2012<\/p>\n “Responsible Investment in the Canadian Territorial North” (with Joshua Gladstone) <\/em>PRI-CBERN Academic Network Conference 2012, Evolution of Responsible Investment: Navigating Complexity<\/em>. October 1-3, 2012 York University, Toronto.<\/p>\n “Property and Democracy: Land Claims Agreements in the New Northern Canadian Political Economy” (with Joshua Gladstone) Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Alberta, June 2012.<\/p>\n “Seeing Like a Community: Social Science Research in Northern Communities” (with Sheena Kennedy Dalseg) International Polar Year Final Conference, Montreal, April 21, 2012.<\/p>\n “State and Society in a Northern Capital: Yellowknife\u2019s Social Economy in Hard Times” (with Jerry Sabin) Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Concordia University, Montreal, June 1, 2010<\/p>\n “What Was It About the Berger Inquiry? The Lasting Impact of the Inquiry into the Construction of a Pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley, 1974-76” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Concordia University, Montreal, June 1, 2010.<\/p>\n “<\/strong>What Now? Pressures on the Federal Role” (with Katherine Graham) Colloquium on Urban Aboriginal Policy, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2, 2010.<\/p>\n “Living With Caribou: Dene Knowledge and Policy Development in the Context of ‘Crisis'” (with Walter Bayha and Deborah Simmons) Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2, 2010.<\/p>\n “Northern Economies: Special Problems of Analysis and Planning\u201d Annual Meeting of the British Association of Canadian Studies.<\/em> University of Cambridge, April 7, 2010.<\/p>\n “Aboriginal People in the Cities and New Challenges for the Federation\u201d Federalism and the Relational Dimension of Indigenous Governance<\/em> University of Ottawa, March 10, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cImagining the Best Possible Northern Economy\u201d Founders Lecture, Department of Geography.<\/em> Carleton University, March 10, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>Canada and New Zealand: Formulating the Relationship between the State and Indigenous Peoples\u201d (with Katherine Graham) Canada<\/em> and New Zealand: Connections, Comparisons, and Challenges.<\/em> Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 8 -10 February, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cThe State and the Northern Social Economy\u201d Nunavut<\/em> Social Economy Summit<\/em> Iqaluit, November 26, 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cGovernment, Governance and Management Systems in the Contemporary Indian Act\u201d\u00a0 Rebuliding Our Nations: Eastern Aboriginal Conference. <\/em>National Centre for First Nations Governance. Halifax, March 3, 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Best Possible Northern Economy\u201d Sixth Conference of the International Association of Arctic Social Science, Illimarfik (University of Greenland) August 23, 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cSettler Colonialism and Commission of Inquiry: Access and Legitimation\u201d Fifth Galway Conference on Settler Colonialism. University of Galway, June 29, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cCommentary: Governance and Partnerships: The Agenda Now\u201d presentation at Economic Transformation North of 60.<\/em>\u00a0 Public Policy Forum Seminar. Ottawa, Dec 13, 2006.<\/p>\n \u201cOpening to a Stronger Democracy: \u201cThe Indian Problem\u201d and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples\u201d Presentation to the Indigenous Bar Association 18th<\/sup> Annual Fall Conference,<\/p>\nBooks<\/h3>\n
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