Indigenous Governance: The Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development and appropriate principles of governance for Aboriginal Australia

.....................................................................................................................................3 1. Indigenising Post-colonial Governance – the Harvard Principles.................................................4 Origins .........................................................................................................................................4 The principles ..............................................................................................................................8 2. The Basis for Authority and Group Governance in Aboriginal Culture......................................13 Clans and tribes as political formations.....................................................................................13 The language group as a substitute for tribe ..............................................................................15 Ordering anarchy through autonomy, relatedness and nurturing...............................................17 3. Governance, Management, Cultural Appropriateness, Civil and Human Rights ........................18 Tolerating intolerant societies, Kymlicka and Tully..................................................................18 Cultural subsidiarity and civil and human rights .......................................................................25 4. Recognising and Encouraging Indigenous Civil Society ............................................................27 REFERENCES................................................................................................................................31 NOTES............................................................................................................................................35