"Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. This vast entit...

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1. Verfasser:	Jones, Sheilla 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Winnipeg, Manitoba J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2019
Ausgabe:	1st edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Soziale Situation Eskimo Indianer Métis Indigenes Volk Politische Beteiligung Kanada Indigenous peoples / Canada / Politics and government Indigenous peoples / Canada / Government relations Native peoples / Canada / Politics and government Native peoples / Canada / Government relations Indigenous peoples / Government relations Indigenous peoples / Politics and government Canada
Zusammenfassung:	"Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. This vast entity has jurisdictional reach over 90% of Canada's landscape, and an annual budget of some $20 billion. Yet Indigenous people have no means to hold this "super-province" accountable to them. Not a single person in this entity has been elected by Indigenous people to represent their interests. Not one. When it comes to federal Indigenous policy, ordinary Indigenous people in Canada are voiceless and powerless. In Let the People Speak, author and journalist Sheilla Jones raises an important question: are the well-documented social inequities in Indigenous communities--high levels of poverty, suicide, incarceration, children in care, family violence--the symptoms of this long-standing, institutionalized powerlessness? If so, the solution lies in empowerment. And the means of empowerment is already embedded in the historic treaties. Jones argues that there can be meaningful reconciliation only when ordinary Indigenous Canadians are finally empowered to make their voices heard, and ordinary non-Indigenous Canadians can join with them to advance a shared future. Topics: Canada reconciliation, Indigenous politics, Canadian Indigenous politics, First Nations, Métis, Inuit"--
Beschreibung:	224 Seiten
ISBN:	9781927922569