Nisga'a Final Agreement: Self-government and its implications on the people of the Nass Valley
Title: Nisga'a Final Agreement: Self-government and its implications on the people of the Nass Valley
Category: /Social Sciences/Political Science
Details: Words: 1513 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nisga'a Final Agreement: Self-government and its implications on the people of the Nass Valley
Category: /Social Sciences/Political Science
Details: Words: 1513 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduction
Self-government is essentially a contestable concept, one where there is no agreement over what it means, what powers a self-government should have, whether a self-government is subordinate to, equal to, or superior to, the other levels, provincial and federal in particular, of government in Canada. In 1998 the Nisga'a Nation signed a tripartite agreement between the people of the Nisga'a First Nation and the governments of Canada and British Columbia and became characterized as setting "…showed first 75 words of 1513 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1513 total…Self-Government in Canada- Current Trends and Issues 2nd Ed. (Purich Publishing Ltd, Saskatoon, 1999).
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Tom Molloy, The World Is Our Witness: The Historic Journey of the Nisga'a into Canada (Fifth House Ltd. Calgary, 2000).
Patricia Monture-Angus, Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations' Independence (Halifax: Fernwood, 1999).
