POL214Y1 Final: POL214Y1 Winter Term, Exam Notes. Can NAtive Sovereignty Coexist with Canadian Sovereignty.

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March 13th, 2019: most canadians have a vague awareness of the deplorable living conditions on many indian reserves, but that is about all, reacting to municipal plans to expand a local golf course onto traditional native lands, armed. In the following essays, two specialists in native issues debate the meaning of native sovereignty and its relationship to the concepts of a sovereign canada. Roger townshend: the average aboriginal person, on the other hand, views much of the power exercised by the. Canadian state as illegitimate, oppressive, and infringing on aboriginal governance powers: pre-contact aboriginal nations unmistakably exercised full control or sovereignty over their traditional lands, although in somewhat different ways than did european nations. Columbia; and joe clark promised to revisit the situation of the disabled once the accord was passed: status indians in canada have certainly failed to thrive under the regime of the indian act and the.