ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how these boundaries work to contain and limit Indigenous recognition in planning, but also to highlight where efforts to further unsettle them might be productive. Three types of boundaries, spatial, political and object operate at different points and work to settle and resettle planning authority and settler spaces in varying ways. Political authority and its spatial jurisdiction are manifestly related to the objects that make this authority real. The terms of Indigenous recognition by settler states are much wider on public lands than they are on lands alienated to private ownership, producing an uneven spatiality to Indigenous recognition in planning. In regard to urban planning and the management of private development rights, the act of incorporating a vaguely recognized Aboriginal political authority has been accomplished through inserting Aboriginal organizations with Registered Aboriginal Party (RAP) status into the existing decision making schema.
