Book Review: Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State, by Alan C. Cairns
Cairns is critical of suggestions of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In his view, they pushed for a "maximum amount of self-government" for First Nations, while neglecting the "civic relation of Aboriginal peoples and individuals to federal and provincial communities and t...
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ftyorkunivohls:oai:digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca:scholarly_works-1737 2023-05-15T16:16:01+02:00 Book Review: Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State, by Alan C. Cairns Imai, Shin 2002-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/736 https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1737&context=scholarly_works unknown Osgoode Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/736 https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1737&context=scholarly_works http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Articles & Book Chapters Aboriginal Cairns Canada Indian indigenous self-government text 2002 ftyorkunivohls 2022-01-10T15:23:09Z Cairns is critical of suggestions of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In his view, they pushed for a "maximum amount of self-government" for First Nations, while neglecting the "civic relation of Aboriginal peoples and individuals to federal and provincial communities and their governments." Legal academics, he observes, have a "pervasive tendency" to "undervalue, underestimate, or overlook the continuing links,"and have become members of an"intellectual social movement." This book review is critical of Cairns for failing to provide details on an alternative and for taking a mono cultural view of what it means to be "Canadian". Text First Nations York University Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School: Osgoode Digital Commons Canada Indian |
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Cairns is critical of suggestions of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. In his view, they pushed for a "maximum amount of self-government" for First Nations, while neglecting the "civic relation of Aboriginal peoples and individuals to federal and provincial communities and their governments." Legal academics, he observes, have a "pervasive tendency" to "undervalue, underestimate, or overlook the continuing links,"and have become members of an"intellectual social movement." This book review is critical of Cairns for failing to provide details on an alternative and for taking a mono cultural view of what it means to be "Canadian". |
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