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.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
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