ISBN

0772529183; 9780772529183

Statement of Responsibility

editors, John Bird, Lorraine Land and Murray Macadam.

Edition

New ed.

Publication Information

Toronto : Irwin Pub.

Physical Description

xvii, 276 p. 23 cm

Notes

"Published by Public Justice Resource Centre"--T.p. verso.

Contents

I. Historic overview: original sovereignty and the colonial experience -- 1. Canadian history: an Aboriginal perspective / Georges Erasmus and Joe Sanders -- 2. The basic dilemma: sovereignty or assimilation / Tim Schouls -- 3. Rooted in creation / Stan McKay -- 4. Reclaiming stolen land / Olive P. Dickason -- 5. Treaty-making with the crown / Sharon Venne -- 6. Land claims: Stuck in never-never land / Lorraine Land and Roger Townshend -- II. The road back to sovereignty -- 7. Self-government in the new millennium / Michael Asch -- 8. Liberating Canada from the settler mythology / Andrew Chapeskie -- 9. Recognizing traditional environmental knowledge / Joanne Barnaby -- 10. Rebuilding community after residential schools / Maggie Hodgson -- 11. Honouring alternatives in the criminal justice system / Irene Fraser -- 12. Restoring women's value / Bernice Hammersmith -- 13. Gathering dust or gathering strength: What should Canada do with the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples? / Lorraine Land -- III. Transition and struggle: community stories -- 14. Kicking out the Indian agent / Burton Jacobs -- 15. From Cedar Lake to Easterville: mouring for what my people lost / Elsie Fiddler -- 16. Nitassinan: caribou and F-16s / Napes Ashini -- 17. The Lubicon Cree: still no settlement after all these years / Bernard Ominayak and Ed Bianchi -- 18. The fall of Dimlahamid: the Gitxsan Wet'su'weten and the fallout of the Delgamuukw decision / Terry Glavin -- 19. Nisga's patience: negotiating our way into Canada / Rod Robinson -- 20. From non-citizen to Nunavut / John Amagoalik -- IV. Becoming partners: non-native reflections on solidarity -- 21. Not in my time: native issues as a point of entry / Murray Angus -- 22. Friends of the Lubicon: How a small group of people can change the world / Kevin Thomas -- 23. Gunboat diplomacy in Canada / William Payne -- 24. Romancing the "other" in Aboriginal support work / Jennifer Barron -- 25. Outrages too many: teaching Aboriginal studies / Ann Pohl -- 26. Once more with honesty: Christian-Aboriginal solidarity / Murray MacAdam -- 27. "Are you willing to listen?" / Rene Fumoleau -- 28. The healing journey: on the bridge between cultures / Shirley Harding.