Aboriginal Citizenship in Transition
Graduate Research Projects & Papers
Author/Creator
Doug Kane
Description
Public Administration Project (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2000.
Argues that the legislation that allows bands to determine their own criteria for membership has, in some cases, resulted in exclusion of individuals who would belong if kinship laws were applied.
Chief and president Dwight Dorey of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) advocates First Nations return to traditional tribal governing entities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.
Reports on the varied reasons why First Nations chiefs rejected the Indian Affairs Minister’s proposed joint governance consultation process to change the Indian Act.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.6.