ISBN
0075528479; 9780075528470
Statement of Responsibility
[edited by] J. Rick Ponting.
Publication Information
Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Physical Description
xvi, 484 p. : ill 23 cm.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Editor's introduction / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 2. Historical overview and background: Part 1 / Roger Gibbins -- Chapter 3. Historical overview and background: Part 2 - 1970-96 / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 4. The socio-demographic picture / J. Rick Ponting -- Part 2: Empowerment and disempowerment in relations with the larger society -- Chapter 5. An overview of First Nations' empowerment and disempowerment: editor's introduction to part 2 / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 6. Disempowerment: “justice”, racism and public opinion / J. Rick Ponting and Jerilynn Kiely -- Chapter 7. Exploitation of the oil and gas frontier: impact on Lubicon Lake Cree women / Rosemary Brown -- Chapter 8. Environmental geo-politics and the new world order: Cree empowerment, La Grande Baleine, and Hydro-Quebec / J. Rick Ponting and Gladys L. Symons -- Chapter 9. Urban Indians: reflections on the participation of First Nation individuals in the institutions of the larger society / George D. Calliou -- Part 3: Culture and community -- Chapter 10. First Nation cultures and communities: editor's introduction to Part 3 / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 11. Stopping family violence: Aboriginal communities enspirited / Madeleine Dion Stout -- Chapter 12. Leadership in First Nation communities: a Chief's perspectives on the colonial millstone / Strater Crowfoot -- Chapter 13. Empowerment through First Nation control of education: a Sakaw Cree philosophy of education / Dale F. Auger -- Part 4: Self-determination -- Chapter 14. Self-determination: editor's introduction to Part 4 / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 15. Reluctant citizens? First Nations in the Canadian federal state / Jodi Cockerill and Roger Gibbins -- Chapter 16. The government of Nunavut (1999): a prospective analysis / André Légaré -- Part 5: Conclusions -- Chapter 17. “Getting on with life” / J. Rick Ponting -- Chapter 18. Getting a handle on recommendation of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples / J. Rick Ponting -- Appendix A: Treaty #7 With the Blackfoot, 1877 -- Appendix B: Selected provisions of the Constitution Act, 1982 -- Appendix C: The Indian Act: selected provisions and commentary.
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