Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

by Cairns, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780774807685
• ISBN10: 0774807687
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more recent government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive support by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Author Biography

Alan C. Cairns is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Empire	p. 14
The Complex Problem of "Voice"	p. 14
History and Humility	p. 16
Empire at Home and Abroad	p. 19
The Cultural Terrain over Which the Battle Is Fought	p. 29
How Did We Get to Where We Are?	p. 40
Conclusion	p. 43
Assimilation	p. 47
Basic Assimilation Policy	p. 49
The 1969 White Paper	p. 51
Academic and Political Support	p. 53
Aboriginal Support	p. 58
Paternalism and the Culture of Leadership	p. 61
Significance of the White Paper Defeat	p. 65
Post-White Paper Aboriginal Constitutional Thought: Preliminary Remarks	p. 70
Cross-currents	p. 71
Conclusion	p. 77
Choice	p. 80
A Time of Transition	p. 80
The Influence of the Past	p. 86
The Requirements of Good Aboriginal Constitutional Policy	p. 90
Assimilation versus Parallelism: Warring Paradigms	p. 91
How We See Ourselves: The Discourse of Contrast	p. 97
An Alternative Vision: A Modernizing Aboriginality	p. 102
A Basis for Living Apart and Together	p. 106
Self-Government Is Only Half an Answer	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 114
The Constitutional Vision of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples	p. 116
A Many-Splendoured but Problematic Report	p. 117
The Constitutional Vision of RCAP	p. 122
Relative Neglect of the Urban Dimension	p. 123
Ancestry versus Identity	p. 126
Cultural Survival versus Economic Opportunity	p. 128
The Centrality of Nation	p. 132
The Nation-to-Nation Approach	p. 134
A Third Order of Aboriginal Government	p. 136
Law, Not Politics	p. 142
Representation at the Centre	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 152
The Choice Revisited	p. 161
An Early Vision: Citizens Plus	p. 161
Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Nations	p. 165
The Opening Up of the Debate	p. 170
Academic Activism and Legal Scholarship	p. 175
Land Claims, Treaty Negotiations, Self-Government, and Citizenship	p. 188
Political Science and "What Will Hold Us Together?"	p. 200
Interdependence and Other Realities	p. 203
An Outward-Looking Aboriginality	p. 205
Empathy and Citizenship	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 210
Notes	p. 214
Bibliography	p. 258
Index	p. 274
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