The year is 2010, I would like to ask a simple question to all Canadians, North Americans, and People of the World, the Indian (Aboriginal/First Nations) Question does it still exist. What does it mean, what has it meant for everyone in the past. The Indian Question has impacted lives ten fold, mostly in a negative way, and it has created confusion from what was once defined. The Indian Question does it still exist.
Book Title: WHAT IS THE INDIAN 'PROBLEM'?
ReplyDeleteTutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration by Noel Dyck
This book addresses the so-called Indian "problem" or "question" which once again is a prominent political concern in Canada. The book critically examines past and present relations between Indians and governments in Canada in order to demonstrate the manner in which the Indian "problem" was created, and how it has been maintained and exacerbated by the policies and administrative practices designed to "solve" it. Tracing the evolving nature of tutelage relations between Indians and government agents, missionaries and teachers, the book considers the possibility that under certain conditions the transfer of some programs and functions to Indian communities may comprise not so much an end to tutelage assumptions and relations as a subtle subcontracting and perpetuation of them.
"The only way to rectify the ravages that Indian bands have suffered is to stop looking for 'experts' and 'masterplans' and to refuse to accept the presumption that Indians do not know what is in their best interests."--Noel Dyck
1992 220 pp. 0-919666-72-8 $27.95 softcover