Aboriginal Citizenship in Transition
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
Doug Kane
Description
Public Administration Project (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2000.
Looks at the lack of acknowledgment of Riel being a Métis by English-speaking nor French-speaking writers.
Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.
Historical note:
Results from the federally-funded program which supports schools in investing in a comprehensive change process.
Argues that determining the "extent to which title-holders have control over Aboriginal title lands," requires that the fiduciary responsibility of the Crown be considered as well.