"Excellent. . . Jobin’s riveting inquiry interweaves careful analysis of legal history and scholarly research with evocative stories from her collaborators in community; it also includes many beautiful images of Cree people, art, and practices, along with a glossary of Cree terms, which provides a window into Cree ways of knowing."

Administrative Science Quarterly

“Beautifully written, Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships is crucially important as a comprehensive exploration of Cree economic values told through story and oral history.”

Glen Coulthard, author of 'Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition'

“Shalene Jobin’s refreshing perspective on a prairie First Nations community is a desperately needed contribution to Indigenous studies as well as history, anthropology, and Canadian studies.”

Priscilla Settee, University of Saskatchewan

"Increasingly economists are understanding, once again, that economics is about values. Not the traditional values that have shaped many years of Keynesian and monetarist economics debates, although these debates too are important, but the values that we wish to uphold as part of our economic system. This is prompting global debates around the well being economy in Australia,Scotland, New Zealand, Finland, Iceland,Wales and Canada in which governments are measuring values of well being as part of a broader set of economic indicators. In the context of these broader debates about the values we wish to uphold in our economic systems, Cree author Sharlene Wuttunee Jobin looks at Cree Indigenous approaches to considering alternative understandings to livelihoods and economics, so as to create a different economic pathway, a pathway more attuned to the Cree ancestral understanding of the ‘good life’."

Economic Record