OCHRE PAPERS
Indigenous Thought Leadership
The Ochre Papers: Indigenous Thought Leadership aims to platform First People’s thought leadership in business, economy, and policy to promote conversations and encourage collaboration between the Indigenous business sector, academics, and policymakers.
It takes the form of commissioned essays and practitioner perspectives from those engaged across the breadth of the Indigenous economy.
Three lands, one vision: Indigenous entrepreneurship in a decolonising world
By Admiral Manganda
“Cultural accountability meant a responsibility to create opportunities for their community, with economic goals intertwined with cultural responsibilities.”
Fostering healing through Truth-telling: Lessons from a workshop to create a vision for community unity
By Michelle Evans, Angela Chen, Judy Atkinson
“Healed relationships can foster effective collaborations to promote economic participation and empowerment.”
In honour of wholeness: Indigenous economic wellbeing and freedom
By Dara Kelly-Roy, Kw’ekw’exós
“When asked, ‘What is the purpose of life?’, a Stó:lō Elder answered, “By the time you are ready to die, you are as whole as you can be.”
Indigenous social mobility: empirical reality, growing phenomenon. What now?
By Michelle Evans and Rochelle Côté
“Indigenous identity and upward social mobility are placed in juxtaposition with each other, bringing us to the question – can Indigenous people ‘wealth’ out of Indigenous identity? Or more precisely does upward social mobility imply cultural assimilation?”
Cultural knowledge and cultural intelligence: fuelling Indigenous economic empowerment
By Jyi Lawton
“Through our culture, we have the power to reshape business practices for the betterment of society, challenging and disrupting the capitalist, neoliberal model that prioritises profit at all costs.”
Relationality: First Peoples Enterprisers Competitive Advantage
By Mark Jones
“Relationality embraces a multiplicity of overlapping relationships with humans, the spiritual and natural worlds, including First Peoples interactions with societal structures today.”
Ochre Papers Launch
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