National Centre for First Nations Governance now online

The website of the National Centre for First Nations Governance is finally online.

This is a huge addition to First Nations communities, and dare I say, many other places as well. The Centre is a kind of open source research and dialogue hub for leading edge thinking and conversation on First Nations governance along the lines of the Delgamuukw site we prepared for the Assembly of First Nations. As I have said all along, the lessons that are being learned as First Nations experiment and implement new forms of governance based on traditional processes that are valid for the 21st century are lessons that can benefit all communities struggling with defining themselves, using their assets and resources and institutionalizing new ways of becoming more free in a global context.

Spend some time watching the video (especially Patrica Montour’s presentation on revolution and empowerment) and browsing some of the research papers and thinking about how they might apply to your own community, state, province or country. This is a big “good news” story for First Nations and it shows that we are leading the way in opening up and testing new ideas about what governance means.

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