Expectation Gap Widens Between Law, Culture, and Lived Experience

ERA V — Overlay of Federal Land & Subsistence Law
Shareholder Impact
1988

Legal outcomes increasingly diverge from cultural expectations and lived realities.

What Happened

Even when rules were applied correctly, outcomes often felt unjust or disconnected from Indigenous worldviews, deepening cynicism toward governance systems.

Why It Matters Today

This gap explains why later transparency efforts alone fail—because legitimacy erosion began decades earlier.

Related Patterns

Pattern 7: Cultural Expectations vs. Corporate Law
Pattern 8: Procedural Legitimacy vs. Trust

Related Governance Themes

Non-Dismissive Engagement Standards
Plain-Language Summaries for Shareholders

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