Tulo Centre Video Series
Video Series: Indigenous Economics
Indigenous Market History
Market economies are not foreign to us. We created them ourselves. In this video, you will experience a sample of our economic ingenuity throughout the Americas.
How Economies Grow
Have you ever wondered how commercial and residential developments happen on First Nations? Dr. Andre Le Dressay walks you through the fundamentals of Indigenous economics and lays a groundwork for understanding the connection between infrastructure and public services, individual revenue growth, job creation, housing, employment demand, and government revenue.
Indigenous Creative Destruction
Creative destruction is the phenomena where a better idea or way of doing something replaces the old way. What if we apply this to colonialism? If this idea works then then systemic bias of colonialism will be destroyed by a systemic approach to innovation that replaces a colonial government framework with an Indigenous one.
Economic Growth Model
The Economic Growth Model outlines the key ingredients or institutions that enable economies to prosper.
Video Series: Power of Pandemics
Indigenous Communities and Pandemics
Indigenous groups are no strangers to pandemics. And as the world struggles to deal with the impacts of COVID-19, Indigenous people struggle to do so in an environment of inadequate and insufficient housing and healthcare systems. This video shares how, as Indigenous peoples have done before across the continent, we must now work together on a pandemic response strategy: to recover, to rebuild, to help each other be great and good.
The Power of Pandemics
Pandemics destroy. When George Vancouver arrived at the Fraser in 1792, he found evidence of the impacts of disease, where a great confluence of civilization had once existed. These losses permanently disrupted our governance structures and disturbed our fiscal power. Past pandemics devastated our people. In this video, learn how diseases left our populations vulnerable, how our jurisdiction was taken while we were struggling for survival, and how this time will be different.
The Tzeachten First Nation Story
Tzeachten First Nation has impressively mitigated the economic fallout from the pandemic and distancing requirements. Tzeachten leadership prioritizes exercising jurisdiction, developing a solid investment climate and encouraging economic diversification. Tzeachten focuses on governing activities and building resilience through fiscal powers. Watch how they did it here.
Video Series: Beyond Transfers
How do we move beyond transfers? What would you do with new fiscal powers?
“The best way to improve lives in our community isn’t necessarily another program, it’s providing the tools we need to succeed.”
- Delyla Daniels, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
Fiscal power allows us to do what works for us. Tulo Centre Chair, Chief Michael LeBourdais.
“The FMA has proven to work for First Nations. It allows us to generate our own revenues, set our own priorities, and pursue our own opportunities.”
- Councillor Dalyn Bear, Whitecap Dakota First Nation.