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Speaking with Authority

The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government

By Michael W. Posluns

Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge – 338 pages

Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

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Description

This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal witnesses before a series of Joint Committees on the Constitutions and the Commons Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Contents

Introduction: Gaining a Purchase: An Introduction to the Public Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations’ Self-Government 1. The Interplay of Language, Policy & Ethics in the Discourse of First Nations’ Relations 2. Assimilation, Enfranchisement and the White Paper: An Overview of First Nations Relations Before 1970 3. Public Conversations on First Nations’ Self-Government 4. The Middle Period: A Minority Parliament and a First Patriation Bill 5. Notions of Sovereignty: Self-Help, Self-Confidence, And Individual And Collective Self-Fulfillment

Author Bio

Michael W. Posluns received his PhD from York University, in Toronto. He was the founding director of the parliamentary relations programme of the National Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations from 1976 to 1982.

Name: Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations' Self-Government (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Michael W. Posluns. This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of...
Categories: Social & Cultural History, Anthropology - Soc Sci, Politics & International Relations, Interdisciplinary Language Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Social & Cultural Anthropology