POLI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Concurrent Jurisdiction, Green Paper, Wampum
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Talking about different opinions on what a proper relationship is- what. Ought to be/ an ideal- justified on the basis of some moral ideal or understanding. How aboriginal people should relate to the canadian state-fundamental disagreement across aboriginals and non-aboriginals. No one single position that is held across the aboriginal spectrum, very strong positions adopted by the canadian government. Through time, there has been shifts and movements in canadian gov. but we will always find supporters or detracters for each position. This is the central difficulties from which every other difficulty flows. Central ideas in aboriginal politics: citizenship citizenry- political community, they have something in common. They have as part of being a political community, norms on how one makes rules that apply to that community. There is the power to make rules, and a big part of that power, is to define who you are. Fundamental content to being self- determinate, it is to determine who you are.