Book Review of A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada by Dan Russell
The issue of achieving self-government has long been a concern of many Aboriginal people in Canada. Indian, Metis, and Inuit people were formally recognized in the Canadian constitution in 1982, when s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 proclaimed that the "existing aboriginal and treaty rights...
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DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2003
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/654 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1648/viewcontent/Green.pdf |
| Summary: | The issue of achieving self-government has long been a concern of many Aboriginal people in Canada. Indian, Metis, and Inuit people were formally recognized in the Canadian constitution in 1982, when s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 proclaimed that the "existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal people of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed." But did this include the right to self-government? |
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