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The devastating impact of the policies and programs of the federal government on the Indian people of Canada is illustrated forcefully in this important and revealing study of the Fort Hope Band. Over a period of seven years, the authors looked at the communities of Webequie, Summer Beaver, Lansdowne House, and Fort Hope in the far reaches of Northwestern Ontario seeking answers to such questions as: How do a people become wards of the state? How does a government work against its stated objectives? How do ghettos appear in the middle of a pristine wilderness? They found that, starting in the early '60s, as government involvement in band life increased, dependency on the government also increased - to the point where today government programs provide 90 percent of the band members' income. Now dependent on programs with can be curtailed at the governments' will, the band is in an extremely vulnerable position. The authors suggest that this is also true of other bands across the country and offer suggestions for constructive change.
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A study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812.
Indians of North America --- Government relations. --- Government relations --- Wars
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"Over the course of a century until the late 1700s, the British Crown, the Iroquois, and other Aboriginal groups of eastern North America developed a system of alliances and treaties that came to be known collectively as the Covenant Chain. In An Ethic of Mutual Respect, Bruce Morito offers a philosophical interrogation of the predominant current reading of the historical record regarding the Covenant Chain. Through this fresh perspective, he overturns assumptions about early First Nations - Crown relationships and demonstrates the relevance of the Covenant Chain to the current relationship. By examining the forms of expression contained in colonial documents, the Record of Indian Affairs, and related materials, Morito locates the values and moral commitments that underpinned the parties' strategies for negotiation and reconciliation. What becomes apparent is that these interactions developed an ethic of mutually recognized respect that was coherent and neither culturally nor historically bound. This ethic, Morito argues, remains relevant to current debates over Aboriginal and treaty rights as they pertain to the British Crown tradition. Real change is possible if the focus can be shifted from piecemeal legal and political disputes to the development of an intercultural ethic based on trust, respect, and solidarity."--Pub. desc.
Indians of North America --- Iroquois Indians --- Government relations --- Government relations.
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Central-local government relations --- Federal government --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Political science --- Decentralization in government --- Russia (Federation) --- Ethnic relations.
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Inuit --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Relocation --- Government relations.
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Los activismos globales de los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes han puesto en la arena de los debates el reclamo de autodeterminación, autonomía y autogobierno, logrando avances relevantes en las normas internacionales. Sin embargo, estos logros se enfrentan a políticas y realidades de los gobiernos nacionales y los intereses económicos de todo tipo en sus países, que los amenazan y pretenden profundizar el despojo. En este libro concebimos a la autonomía como una variedad de prácticas, procesos y mecanismos de auto-gobernanza a través de los cuales se expresan y se dotan de sentido los derechos inherentes y aspiraciones soberanas de los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes alrededor del mundo. El derecho a la libre determinación es una parte consustancial de la vida sociopolítica contemporánea y, su ejercicio en sus territorios es hoy, probablemente, uno de los únicos caminos para la persistencia de la vida en el planeta. Las contribuciones que integran este volumen, muchas de ellas de autoría indígena, colocan debates que abordan esos desafíos y enlazan las voces ancestrales con las luchas de hoy y la defensa del futuro.
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Focusing on William Cooper's most important campaigns, this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia's black history heard and win representation in Australia's political order.
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American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today-hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government, until now there has been no comprehensive history of these treaties and their role in American life.Francis Paul Prucha, a leading authority on the history of American Indian affairs, argues that the treaties were a political anomaly from the very beginning. The term "treaty" implies a contract between sovereign independent nations, yet Indians were always in a position of inequality and dependence as negotiators, a fact that complicates their current attempts to regain their rights and tribal sovereignty.Prucha's impeccably researched book, based on a close analysis of every treaty, makes possible a thorough understanding of a legal dilemma whose legacy is so palpably felt today.
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