Boosting the Indigenous economy to $100B – RRU

One hundred billion dollars is a big figure representing big ambitions — and Carol Anne Hilton thinks it may not be big enough.

That number is the goal for the Indigenous economy within Canada, says Hilton, the founder and CEO of the Victoria, B.C.-based Indigenomics Institute, which, according to its mission statement, “works with Indigenous nations and organizations, governments and private industry to strengthen Indigenous economic capacity… through research, education [and] management consulting services.”

But even that goal doesn’t tell the whole story.

Her book, Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table, which was published March 16, lays out among other things what Hilton calls “the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all.”