Break Point: Fourth World Nation's International Resistance to Canada during Patriation

• Main Author: Rÿser, Ruldoph C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of British Columbia 2022
• Subjects: Constitution of Canada; aboriginal rights; Manuel; George; Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC); British Columbia; Canada; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/195407; https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no212.195407

Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced a “White Paper” in 1969 that his government would unilaterally take Native lands by declaring Canada an independent state with its own Constitution. “I don’t think that we should encourage the Indians to feel that their Treaties (with the United Kingd...