Building new orders of government - The future of aboriginal self-government

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 274-289

  Doerr, Audrey D ^a  

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EID: 0008742925     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.1997.tb01510.x     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report [5 vols.] (Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1996).
2. Canada, Constitution Act, 1982 [en. by the Canada Act, 1982 (U.K.), c. 11, s. 1], Section 35. Historical and legal differences of the past complicate the definition of each group. Moreover, the federal government has exercised legislative responsibility for First Nations and limit peoples, pursuant to Section 91 (24) of the Constitution Act, 1867; provinces traditionally have assumed responsibility for Métis and non-status Indians off-reserve.
3. Government of Canada, Charlottetown Accord, Draft Legal Text (Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1992), p. 37.
4. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Policy Guide: Aboriginal Self Government. Government of Canada's Approach to Implementation of the Inherent Right and the Negotiation of Aboriginal Self Government (Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1995). Although available in hard copy, the version referred to in this article can be found at INAC World Wide Web Site.
5. See Del Riley, "What Canada's Indians Want and the Difficulties of Getting It," in Leroy Little Bear, Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long, eds., Pathways to Self-Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), p. 160, where he says: "Indian people asked, ... Why should we get involved in the constitutional discussions? Getting involved meant we had to deal with the Canadian government largely on its own terms. After all, we are nations. Why should we stoop to ask the federal government for rights to which we have an inherent historical claim? But then again, would we have done the right thing for our people by staying away from the discussions?"
6. Kathy L. Brock, "The politics of aboriginal self-government: a Canadian paradox," CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 34, no. 2 (Summer 1991), p. 283.
7. Menno Boldt, Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 266-7.
8. Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Volume 2. Restructuring the Relationship. Part One (Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1996), p. 110.
9. Ibid., p. 109.
10. Ibid., p. 108.
11. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Federal Policy Guide. See INAC World Wide Web Site.
12. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring, p. 225.
13. Jodi Cockerill and Roger Gibbins, "Reluctant Citizens? First Nations in the Canadian Federal State," in J. Rick Ponting, ed., First Nations in Canada: Perspectives on Opportunity, Empowerment and Self-Determination (Whitby: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, forthcoming) [The references are from a pre-publication draft: Chapter 18, p. 477].
14. Ibid., p. 487.
15. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring, p. 228.
16. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Nunavut Government Structure and Political Development" [mimeo] December 1996.
17. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Statistics" [mimeo] December 1995.
18. Alan D. McMillan, Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada, 2nd edition (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1995), pp. 306-7.
19. Ibid.
20. See Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring, pp. 236-50. On page 236, the report states: "The Royal Commission concludes that the constitutional right of self-government is vested in the people that make up Aboriginal nations, not in local communities as such ...."
21. Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Volume 1. Looking Forward, Looking Back (Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1996), p. 15.
22. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Population Projections of Registered Indians: 1991-2015" [mimeo] May 1995.
23. Strater Crowfoot, "Leadership in First Nation Communities: A Chief's Perspectives on the Colonial Millstone," in J. Rick Ponting, First Nations in Canada: Perspectives on Opportunity, Empowerment and Self-Determination (Whitby: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, forthcoming) [The references are from a pre-publication draft: Chapter 13, p. 394.]
24. Some of these suggestions are contained as recommendations in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring and in Volume 3. Gathering Strength. These ideas are but a few of a large number of possible initiatives that have been suggested from time to time. One such initiative, announced on 9 December 1996 by the prime minister and the minister of Indian affairs and northern development, is the recent partnership among the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and its financial arm, the Saskatchewan Indian Equity Foundation, and the Toronto-Dominion Bank to establish the First Nations Bank of Canada as a chartered bank.
25. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Nunavut Government Structure and Political Development."
26. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Joint Statement: Canada/Government of Northwest Territorires on Constitutional Development in the Western Northwest Territories," News Release 13 February 1997 (Ottawa: Department, 1997).
27. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Yale First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia sign Framework Agreement," News Release 12 February 1997 (Ottawa: Department, 1997).
28. Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, "Aboriginal Agenda: Three Years of Progress" [mimeo] 15 November 1996.
29. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Looking Forward, Looking Back, p. 259.
30. Canada, Parliament, House of Commons, Special Committee on Indian Self-Government, Indian Self-Government [Penner Report] (Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1983).
31. McMillan, Native Peoples.
32. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring, pp. 155-7.
33. Crowfoot, "Leadership in First Nation Communities," in Ponting, First Nations in Canada, p. 377.
34. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Restructuring, p. 362.
35. Crowfoot, "Leadership in First Nation Communities," in Ponting, First Nations in Canada, p. 396.
36. CBC Newsworld [morning news] 3 December 1996.