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The First Nation governance system

12 May 2010

We have worked with several First The Indian Act (section 74.2) states that the council Nations with roughly 700 on reserve members (near the of the First Nation shall consist of one chief and one average size of First Nations) having public services councillor for every hundred with the number of numbering some 100 employees. [...] The direction and priorities of a First Nation government can change Questions surrounding natural resource revenues dramatically with the election of a new group of and the effects of fiscal transfers have long political leaders, much more so than in other bedevilled commentators in Canada. [...] Canadians are broadly familiar with out in the Indian Act is a major brake on the notion of the ‘curse of oil,’ the thesis that oil economic development. [...] This identity robs us of the very of their children as well as the perception by some self-determination we have sought for so in the community that they have betrayed the First long and deepens our dependency on the Nation by “diluting the purity of the bloodline”. [...] At the heart of the nation-building approach The historical record is unequivocal: Aboriginal advocated by the Harvard researchers is ‘de facto’ peoples in Canada were the victims of an sovereignty, where sovereignty is used not in the oppressive and devastating colonial regime imposed international sense to signify a sovereign country.
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Authors

Graham, John

Pages
12
Published in
Canada

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