First nations? Second thoughts /Tom Flanagan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2019.Edition: Third editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E92 .F577 2019
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Contents:
We were here first -- What ever happened to civilization? -- The fiction of Aboriginal sovereignty -- Bands, tribes, or nations? -- The inherent problems of Aboriginal self-government -- In search of property -- Treaties, agreements, and land surrenders -- Making a living -- This octagon is a stop sign -- Update 2008.
Subject: "Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom Flanagan describes as "aboriginal orthodoxy"--The belief that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment. Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small elite of activists, politicians, administrators, and well-connected entrepreneurs, while bringing further misery to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial and thought-provoking, First Nations? Second Thoughts dissects the prevailing ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. Flanagan analyzes the developments of the last ten years, showing how a conflict of visions has led to a stalemate in aboriginal policy-making. He concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved not as the result of public policy changes in government but through the actions of the people themselves."--
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"Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom Flanagan describes as "aboriginal orthodoxy"--The belief that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment. Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small elite of activists, politicians, administrators, and well-connected entrepreneurs, while bringing further misery to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial and thought-provoking, First Nations? Second Thoughts dissects the prevailing ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. Flanagan analyzes the developments of the last ten years, showing how a conflict of visions has led to a stalemate in aboriginal policy-making. He concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved not as the result of public policy changes in government but through the actions of the people themselves."--

The Aboriginal orthodoxy -- We were here first -- What ever happened to civilization? -- The fiction of Aboriginal sovereignty -- Bands, tribes, or nations? -- The inherent problems of Aboriginal self-government -- In search of property -- Treaties, agreements, and land surrenders -- Making a living -- This octagon is a stop sign -- Update 2008.

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