Introduction * Indigenous Peoples and Development Processes: New Terrains of Struggle--Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit and Glenn McRae * Life Projects: Indigenous Peoples' Agency and Development--Mario Blaser * Part I: Visions: Life Projects, Representations and Conflicts * Life Projects: Development Our Way--Bruno Barras * 'Way of Life' or 'Who Decides': Development, Paraguayan Indigenism and the Yshiro People's Life Projects--Mario Blaser * Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Toward Co-Existence--Deborah McGregor * James Bay Crees' Life Projects and Politics: Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships--Harvey A. Feit * Grassroots Transnationalism and Life Projects of Vermonters in the Great Whale Campaign--Glenn McRae * 'The People Had Discovered Their Own Approach to Life': Politicizing Development Discourse--Wendy Russell * Part II: Strategies: States, Markets and Civil Society * Survival in the Context of Mega-Resource Development: Experiences of the James Bay Cree and the First Nations of Canada--Matthew Coon Come * The Importance of Working Together: Exclusions, Conflicts and Participation in James Bay, Quebec--Brian Craik * Defending a Common Home: Native/Non-Native Alliances against Mining Corporations in Wisconsin-- Al Gedicks and Zoltaacute;n Grossman * Chilean Economic Expansion and Mega-Development Projects in Mapuche Territories--Aldisson Anguita Mariqueo * Hydroelectric Development on the Biacute;o-Biacute;o River, Chile: Anthropology and Human Rights Advocacy--Barbara Rose Johnston and Carmen Garcia-Downing * Part III: Invitations: Connections and Co-Existence * Revisiting Gandhi and Zapata: Motion of Global Capital, Geographies of Difference and the Formation of Ecological Ethnicities--Pramod Parajuli * A Dream of Democracy in the Russian Far East--Petra Rethmann * The 'Risk Society': Tradition, Ecological Order and Time-Space Acceleration--Peter Harries-Jones * Conflicting Discourses of Property, Governance and Development in the Indigenous North--Colin Scott * Resistance, Determination and Perseverance of the Lubicon Cree Women--Dawn Martin-Hill * Restoring our Relationship for the Future--Mary Arquette, Maxine Cole and the Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment * In Memoriam: Chief Harvey Longboat (1936-2001).