Governing Indigenous Territories

"Governing Indigenous Territories" illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes." Study of the people of Rukullakta, an Indigenous territory in Ecuador, and struggles for sovreignty and to enact sustainable self rule. "Shows how collective titling produces new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within indigenous territories."