Review of The Dynamics of Native Politics: The Alberta Metis Experience by Joe Sawchuk

• Main Author: Anderson, Chris
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2000
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Canada; Metis
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/508; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1502/viewcontent/5___The_Dynamics_of_Native_Politics.pdf

Since at least the 1960s, Canadian Aboriginal political activity has witnessed a startling increase in both its breadth and intensity. This activism has increasingly voiced the concerns and frustrations of Aboriginal people through political organizations whose explicit mandate was and remains to lobby the provincial and federal governments on behalf of their constituents. There is considerable debate, however, about the extent to which these organizations actually represent progressive social change for Aboriginals in Canada or simply owe their "resistance" to the heavy influence of federal and provincial government funding.