POL 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Northern Alberta, Dismantled, Accountability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3113
• Professor: Stephanie Mullen

Document Summary

United nations declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples http://www. un. org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/drips_en. pdf. Self-government: traditional and contemporary methods are combined to form aboriginal govts. http://www. aadnc-aandc. gc. ca/eng/1100100016293/1100100016294. Self determination: canada"s indigenous people are free to determine their own political, economic, social, and cultural development and is fundamental to realising their rights. Aboriginal self-gov"t is the formal structure through which aboriginal communities may control the administration of their people, land, resources, and related programs and policies, through agreements w/ federal and provincial gov"ts. The forms of self-gov"t, where enacted, are diverse and aboriginal self-gov"t remains an evolving and contentious issue in canadian law, policy, and public life. The indian act 1876: dismantled traditional systems of governance and imposed external controls on individuals and communities. Not until the late 1960s and early 1970s did increasingly effective political organizations and intensifying activism, along w/ several high-profile disputes over development in canada"s north, set canada on a path toward acknowledging and enabling forms of aboriginal self-govt.