Understanding First Nations Book
The Legacy of Canadian Colonialism
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Understanding First Nations explains those troubling headlines and issues you have been hearing and reading about recently. So, who are First Nations anyway? Why do they claim so much of Canada? What are the treaties all about and why do we still have an Indian Act? Who is responsible for the alleged mess on the reserves and why isn’t governance working better? Isn’t the residential schools issue far in the past, along with the Sixties Scoop? Why are the prisons full of Indigenous Canadians and why are so many being murdered? What’s the problem with consultations and don’t we throw enough money at them? Maybe removing a few more statues of Sir John A. Macdonald will solve everything. Are myths and ignorance getting in the way? If these questions interest you, then this is an easy-to-read, factual account that will help you Understand First Nations.
Dr. Ed Whitcomb is the author of short histories of the 10 Canadian provinces, and a book on the history of the Canadian North. He received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1964 with silver medals in History and Economics, the Brandon College Faculty Prize, and the Brandon College Honour Society Award. An M.A. at the University of Manitoba was followed by a Ph.D. at the University of London, England, published as Napoleon’s Diplomatic Service by Duke University Press. After teaching European History for six years he made his career as a political and economic analyst in the Canadian Foreign Service and the government’s Intelligence Secretariat. He wrote Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces, the contentious history of the Canadian federation. He was inducted to the Brandon University Wall of Fame. For more information, visit his website www.SeaToSea.com .
Contents
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Preface
- Chapter 1 Who Defines “Indians?” White Men of course!
- Chapter 2 Some History (yawn)
- Chapter 3 Settler Myths About First Nations
- Chapter 4 Sovereignty: the Creator or the Govenment?
- Chapter 5 Treaties are for Breaking – by the Government
- Chapter 6 The Shrinking Reserve – What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine
- Chapter 7 The Indian Act: a Colonial Document
- Chapter 8 Governance: Good, Bad or Problematic?
- Chapter 9 Residential Schools and Cultural Genocide
- Chapter 10 Incarceration Rates: From Zero to Infinity
- Chapter 11 Welfare or Bad Fare?
- Chapter 12 Missing and Murdered but not Forgotten
- Chapter 13 Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink
- Chapter 14 Education, Health and Housing
- Chapter 15 Consultations: why bother? Well…
- Chapter 16 Land Claims, Court Decisions, New Treaties and Indigenous Rights
- Chapter 17 Reconciliation and Political Correctness
- Conclusion: We Are All Treaty People; Where Do We Go From Here?
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Introduction
Bibliography
Index
Quality Paperback, 6×9” 200 pg, Publication date: October 2019, ISBN 978-09865967-4-2: $19.95
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