Citizens Plus : Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Empire -- The Complex Problem of "Voice" -- History and Humility -- Empire at Home and Abroad -- The Cultural Terrain over Which the Battle Is Fought -- How Did We Get to Where We Are? -- Conclusion -- 2 Assimilation -- Basic Assimilation Policy -- The 1969 White Paper -- Academic and Political Support -- Aboriginal Support -- Paternalism and the Culture of Leadership -- Significance of the White Paper Defeat -- Post-White Paper Aboriginal Constitutional Thought: Preliminary Remarks -- Cross-currents -- Conclusion -- 3 Choice -- A Time of Transition -- The Influence of the Past -- The Requirements of Good Aboriginal Constitutional Policy -- Assimilation versus Parallelism: Warring Paradigms -- How We See Ourselves: The Discourse of Contrast -- An Alternative Vision: A Modernizing Aboriginality -- A Basis for Living Apart and Together -- Self-Government Is Only Half an Answer -- Conclusion -- 4 The Constitutional Vision of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- A Many-Splendoured but Problematic Report -- The Constitutional Vision of RCAP -- Relative Neglect of the Urban Dimension -- Ancestry versus Identity -- Cultural Survival versus Economic Opportunity -- The Centrality of Nation -- The Nation-to-Nation Approach -- A Third Order of Aboriginal Government -- Law, Not Politics -- Representation at the Centre -- Conclusion -- 5 The Choice Revisited -- An Early Vision: Citizens Plus -- Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Nations -- The Opening Up of the Debate -- Academic Activism and Legal Scholarship -- Land Claims, Treaty Negotiations, Self-Government, and Citizenship -- Political Science and "What Will Hold Us Together?" -- Interdependence and Other Realities -- An Outward-Looking Aboriginality -- Empathy and Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C.

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Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.

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