Research Catalog

Title

Surviving as Indians : the challenge of self-government / Menno Boldt.

Author

Boldt, Menno.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xx, 384 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This study discusses the history of Indian policy in Canada, and examines the areas of justice, policy, leadership, culture and economy as factors in self-government.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Canada > Politics and government
• Indians of North America > Canada > Social conditions
• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
• 71.37 ethnic groups
• Indians of North America > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Politics and government
• Indians of North America > Social conditions
• Indianer
• Selbstverwaltung
• Indianen
• Zelfbestuur
• Iwi taketake
• Canada
• Kanada
• Indianer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-373) and index.

Contents

1. Justice (Contemporary injustice -- Guilt management -- The Just Society -- Parameters and instrumentalities of justice -- Conclusion) -- 2. Policy (The national interest -- Institutional assimilation -- Pan-Indianism -- Indian government -- The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development -- The end of Indian policy -- Conclusion) -- 3. Leadership (Leadership characteristics -- Indian self-government -- Conclusion) -- 4. Culture (Cultural crisis: causes -- Cultural crisis: consequences -- Cultural revitalization -- Resistance to change -- Political dimensions -- Conclusion) -- 5. Economy (Government policy -- Indian goals -- Economy and self-government -- An alternative design -- Conclusion).

ISBN

• 0802029396
• 9780802029393
• 0802077676
• 9780802077677

LCCN

93215302

OCLC

• ocm27381447
• 27381447
• SCSB-2022933

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library