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Flanagan, Tom

 
9780773520707: First Nations? Second Thoughts
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ISBN 10: 0773520708 ISBN 13: 9780773520707
Editorial: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

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 a cornucopia of legal privileges, including rights to self-government beyond federal and provincial jurisdiction, immunity from taxation, court decisions reopening treaty issues settled long ago, the right to hunt and fish without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care as well as other economic benefits. Underpinning these privileges is what Flanagan describes as Aboriginal orthodoxy - a set of beliefs that hold that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment; that Aboriginal peoples are part of sovereign nations endowed with an inherent right to self-government; that Aboriginals must have collective rather than individual property rights; that all treaties must be renegotiated on a "nation-to-nation" basis; and that Native people should be encouraged to build prosperous "Aboriginal economies" through money, land, and natural resources transferred from other Canadians. In First Nations? Second Thoughts Flanagan combines conceptual analysis with historical and empirical information to show that the Aboriginal orthodoxy is both unworkable and ultimately destructive to the people it is supposed to help.

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Tom Flanagan is professor emeritus of political science, University of Calgary, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Editorial
McGill-Queen's University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0773520708
ISBN 13 
9780773520707
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
216
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