SOCI 230 Lecture 19: 20
Document Summary
Understanding indigeneity within context of ethnic and race relations. Aboriginality - a process of being aboriginal or pertaining to. Aboriginal peoples: shared awareness of ancestral similarities, descendatdts of first occupants. Principle - inalienable rights have never been extinguished. Not just canadian citizens who happen to live on reserves. Reject label as merely another ethnic or racial group. Legitimacy as a sovereign nation not flow from the state but from natural law/spiritual decree: by their mere existence as indigenous peoples they are a legitimately sovereign nation. Policies & programs that the canadian government uses to manage diversity are aimed at non-indigenous minority groups, not applicable to indigenous. Rights and entitlements related to survival as peoples: ownership of land and resources, protection and promotion of language, culture, identity, political voice and self-government, aboriginal models of self-determination. Different from what the average canadian citizen claims in rights. Historical, cornerstone of indigenous peoples" diplomacy with.
