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Indigenous Governance: Questioning the Status and the Possibilities for Reconciliation with Canada's Commitment to Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

Kiera Ladner

Indigenous Governance: Questioning the Status and the Possibilities for Reconciliation with Canada's Commitment to Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
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Resource Type Scientific Paper
Language
  • English
Year 2006
Country Canada
Topic
  • Indigenous Governance
Complexity Academic
Keywords
  • Decision Making
  • Land Stewardship
  • Monitoring
  • Self-Determination
Written By Academic Researchers
Written For
  • Academic Institutions or Researchers
  • Leadership and Management
Description Are Indigenous governments considered government and what is their place in the federal order of Canada? The paper begins with a brief discussion of forms of Indigenous governance. The author then argues that Indian Act band councils are not ‘true’ governments, and that Indigenous governance could be reconciled within the Canadian constitutional order.
Copyright Creative Commons, Non Commercial