A Case history and analysis of Stoney Indian-government interaction with regard to the Big Horn Dam: the effects of citizen participation - a lesson in government perfidy and Indian frustration ...

• Main Author: Getty, Wayne Edwin Allen
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Calgary 1975
• Subjects: Assiniboin Indians; Indians of North America - Alberta; Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations; Big Horn Dam Alta.; stoney
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/10779; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/13079

Bibliography: p. 137-142. ... : A basic tenet of responsible government is citizen participation. However, participation only has significance when people feel that it will give them some control over the forces that affect their lives. In Canada, the significant disparity in wealth and power between those who "have" and those who "have not" has resulted in a situation of alienation and powerlessness for many Canadians. Community organization is directed towards redressing this wrong by enabling groups to regain some measure of power over their lives. This case history relates how a group of Indians organized to assert their right s as a minority group in a democratic system. They tried to achieve a just solution to their problem, but instead, they encountered an insensitive government whose actions served only to increase the Indians' frustrations. Two events of the case history are analyzed , using the framework of the social action model of Community organization to help understand the role of the organizer, the processes of forming ...