The New Buffalo
The New Buffalo

Author: Blair Stonechild

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 088755377X

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Post-secondary education, often referred to as "the new buffalo," is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government insists that post-secondary education is a social program for which they have limited responsibility. In "The New Buffalo, "Blair Stonechild traces the history of Aboriginal post-secondary education policy from its earliest beginnings as a government tool for assimilation and cultural suppression to its development as means of Aboriginal self-determination and self-government. With first-hand knowledge and personal experience of the Aboriginal education system, Stonechild goes beyond merely analyzing statistics and policy doctrine to reveal the shocking disparity between Aboriginal and Canadian access to education, the continued dominance of non-Aboriginals over program development, and the ongoing struggle for recognition of First Nations run institutions.

Lay Membership of the Committee on Standards and Privileges
Lay Membership of the Committee on Standards and Privileges

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Procedure

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9780215038586

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The House should be given the opportunity to restate its acceptance of the principle behind the proposal that lay members be added to the Committee on Standards and Privileges, the Procedure Committee concludes in a report published today. The committee's report responds to the resolution of the House of 2 December last year that lay members should sit on the Committee on Standards and Privileges. If that principle is restated, the House should study with care the arguments made for the inclusion of lay members with or without voting rights, and decide whether lay members should be appointed to the committee with full voting rights or whether they should be appointed with more limited rights protected by rules on quorum and publication of their opinion or advice. A decision in favour of membership with full voting rights would require legislation to be brought forward to put beyond reasonable doubt any question of whether parliamentary privilege applies to the Committee on Standards where it has an element of lay membership. The Procedure Committee recommends that the Committee on Standards and Privileges should be split in two, and that lay members should be included only on the committee relating to standards. The committee also makes a number of practical recommendations about the number, appointment and term of office of lay members.

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 1852

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Identity Captured by Law
Identity Captured by Law

Author: Sébastien Grammond

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0773535039

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How the law decides who the members of minority groups are while avoiding discrimination and respecting self-determination.

Tammarniit (Mistakes)
Tammarniit (Mistakes)

Author: Frank Tester

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0774842717

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Through an examination of the roles of relief and relocation in response to welfare and other perceived problems and the federal government's overall goal of assimilating the Inuit into the dominant Canadian culture, this book questions the seeming benevolence of the post-Second World War Canadian welfare state. The authors have made extensive use of archival documents, many of which have not been available to researchers before. The early chapters cover the first wave of government expansion in the north, the policy debate that resulted in the decision to relocate Inuit, and the actual movement of people and materials. The second half of the book focuses on conditions following relocation and addresses the second wave of state expansion in the late fifties and the emergence of a new dynamic of intervention.

The Cultural Politics of Fur
The Cultural Politics of Fur

Author: Julia Emberley

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780801484049

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Emberley documents the 1980s confrontations between animal rights activists and native peoples that pitted Lynx, the organization responsible for the high-profile anti-fur ads in Great Britain, against Inuit and Dene societies' claims for a livelihood based on the selling and trading, consumption and production of animal fur. From colonial fur trading to twentieth-century globalization of the fur industry, Emberley analyzes the cultural, political, material, and libidinal values ascribed to fur.