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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Another good book tackling the issues facing Canadians and Aboriginals.Should be read by everyone connected with the 'Idle No More ' movement. ( ) Flanagan's solutions to our national Indian policy may not be for everyone, but what we are doing now is not working. We just had another crisis on a reserve recently in the Abwatiscatt debacle. Flanagan is a political science professor at the University of Calgary who has done mountains of research if his bibliography is any indication. If you are concerned about the terrible conditions on some of Canada's Indian Reserves and the huge amounts of money that is thrown at the problem without much improvement, read this book. He says living a hunter and gathering life style today is no longer feasible and the sooner Indians become part of mainstream Canadian society by getting an education and a job off the reserve the more satisfying their life will be. If a citizen never has to pay taxes or cannot own one's own home, there is no incentive to take care of the home or be concerned about how the community one lives in is run. This is a very readable volume about a major social and political issue in Canada. A very controversial book, reviewing the history of Canadian public policy towards First Nations peoples, and advocating significant change. Flanagan questions the "orthodox" view that First Nations people are entitled to special legal rights by virtue of their prior residence in North America, questions whether they are part of sovereign nations which should negotiate as equals with the federal government, and questions their right to self-government. His arguments are well presented, but have been met with outrage by First Nations leaders and many liberals in Canada. A thought-provoking read, as these issues increasingly urgent in Canadian politics. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"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 legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom Flanagan describes as "aboriginal orthodoxy"--the belief that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment. Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small elite of activists, politicians, administrators, and well-connected entrepreneurs, while bringing further misery to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial and thought-provoking, First Nations? Second Thoughts dissects the prevailing ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. Flanagan analyzes the developments of the last ten years, showing how a conflict of visions has led to a stalemate in aboriginal policy-making. He concludes that aboriginal success will be achieved not as the result of public policy changes in government but through the actions of the people themselves."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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