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The New Power Brokers: How Enterprising Aboriginal Leaders Are Unlocking the Value of First Nations Lands
The New Power Brokers How Enterprising Aboriginal Leaders Are Unlocking the Value of First Nations Lands Author:Alex Rose An introduction to the next generation of First Nations leaders, and the new world they are building. — Brash, pragmatic, skilled in business and public relations, a new generation of Aboriginal leaders is creating a radical shift in thinking, unlocking the value of First Nations lands for the direct benefit of Aboriginal peoples. — In this compel... more »ling book, Alex Rose surveys this development on a national scale and profiles four B.C. visionaries?Kim Baird, Clarence Louie, Tewanee Joseph and Manny Jules?who are leading their people into the twenty-first century. Each manages tracts of land that make realtors drool. And each is using the value of that real estate to break out of historic poverty, thanks to millions in earnings as landlords of everything from condos, hotels, high-end golf resorts and industrial parks to giant container ports.
This new approach is not without controversy, but it may set in motion the changes that Canadians?Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal?are desperate to see.« less