Chapter 20 Canada’s Aboriginal Policy and the Politics of Ambivalence: A Policy Tools Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. “We are All Here to Stay”: The Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of Rcap ix
4. Charting a Way Forward 1
5. Setting the Scene for a New Nation-To-Nation Relationship
6. Completing Confederation: The Necessary Foundation 19
7. Twenty Years Later: The Rcap Legacy in Indigenous Health System Governance— What About the Next Twenty? 50
8. Creating the Vision for a New Nation-To-Nation Relationship
9. Address by René Dussault 79
10. Address by Georges Erasmus 82
11. Address by Perry Bellegarde 85
12. Address by Natan Obed 94
13. Address by Clément Chartier 102
14. Address by Robert Bertrand 110
15. Address by Francyne Joe 116
16. Address by Carolyn Bennett 121
17. Powerful Communities, Healthy Communities
18. Thunderbird is Rising: Indigenizing Education in Canada 133
19. Insights into Community Development in First Nations: A Poverty Action Research Project 167
20. Indigenous Economic Development with Tenacity 206
21. Powerful Communities, Healthy Communities: A Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Healing And Wellness 219
22. Cultural Safety 258
23. What Will it Take? Ending the Canadian Government’S Chronic Failure to do Better for First Nations Children and Families When it Knows Better 280
24. The Art of Healing and Reconciliation: From Time Immemorial Through Rcap, the Trc, and Beyond 308
25. Moving to Action
26. Engaging Citizens in Indigenous–Non-Indigenous Relations 363
27. Sshrc and the Conscientious Community: Reflecting and Acting on Indigenous Research and Reconciliation in Response to Cta 65 405
28. Canada’s Aboriginal Policy and the Politics of Ambivalence: A Policy Tools Perspective 424
29. Executive Summary: Canadian Public Opinion on Aboriginal Peoples 452
30. What’s the Way Forward? 461
31. The Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum Oversight Committee 476
32. Contributors 477
33. Index 487