PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: APPROACHES TO
DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
THE HISTORY OF APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT
- Before the modem era of development
- The Hawthorn Report
- Community development
- The National Indian Advisory Board
- An Indian Claims Commission for Canada
- The end of innovation
- The White Paper
- Modernization
- Wahbung: Our Tomorrows
- Together Today for Our
Children Tomorrow
- Development and the Western Métis - the early 1970s
- Economic development
- Indian Economic Development Fund
- Statement on Economic
Development of Indian Communities
- A Strategy for the
Socio-economic Development of Indian People
- The Berger Report
- Comprehensive development - an early example
- A unified approach to development
- The Penner Report
- Pragmatic accommodations
- The Beaver Report
- New Directions in the
Indian-Government Relationship
- Dual Realities - Dual Strategies
- The Ontario Indian Economic Development Board
- The Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy
THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER TWO: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
INTRODUCTION
- The Kaska Dena on the middle ground
PEOPLE AND RESOURCES - A HISTORY OF EXCLUSION
- Water in an environment of constraint
- Gaining control of water - tactics
- Provisions of the Indian Act
- Negotiation
- The courts
- Legislated change
- The claims process
- Assertion
OTHER RESOURCES, SAME CONSTRAINTS
- A middle path - resource co-management
- The Waterhen Moose and Wood Bison Management Agreements
- The Teme-Augama Stewardship Agreement
- The Porcupine Caribou Management Board
- Comprehensive land claims and co-management
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER THREE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS
INTRODUCTION
TAXATION STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
- Taxation: a system of constraint
- Nowegijick
- Eligibility for exemptions
- Property exemptions
- Debts owed to Indians
- Retail sales taxes
- The Goods and Services Tax
- Customs and duties
- Corporations
- Taxation strategies and tactics
- Taxation by-laws
- Tax avoidance
- Joint ventures and taxation
- Charities and taxation
- The Sechelt Act
- The Kamloops Amendment
- Other proposals for legislated change
- Constitutional change
- Taxation and land claims
- Assertion of rights
- The future of taxation
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
- The amounts involved
- "Coping with the cash"
- The record of the settled claims
- Investment in organized markets
- Investment in enterprise
PAYOUTS AND DIVIDENDS
INVESTMENT IN LOCAL INSTITUTIONS
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER FOUR: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
SELF-GOVERNMENT - LOST AND FOUND
CONSTRAINTS ON SELF-GOVERNMENT
REGAINING CONTROL - STAGED INITIATIVES
- Grassroots political development
- Fine-tuning imposed rules
- Program devolution
- Function devolution
- Legislated self-government -
the Sechelt Act
- The Alberta-Métis Settlements Accord
- Other Métis communities
- Land claims and constitutional change
- International support
- Assertions of right
- Penetrating Canada's political frontier
INTERNAL CONSTRAINTS ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
- The form of se1f-government
- The Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en model of balance
- Performing self-government
- Funding self-government
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER FIVE: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
CONSTRAINTS ON CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
- The courts on tradition
- Assimilation and acculturation
- Divided interests
CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
- Grassroots cultural development
- Nutshimium Atesseun
- Resource harvester support programs
NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Peigan Prevention Counselling Services
- Regaining the child
- Nuu-chah-nulth Family and Child Services
INNOVATION AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
THE POINT OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Local stability
- Accommodation
- A gauge of the problem: women, work and education
- Employment and education strategies and tactics
- Reallocation of available funds
- Local and regional job takeover
- Staffing needs of aboriginal organizations
- Resources, education, and employment
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER SIX: PLANNING DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION
- The Lethbridge Aboriginal Women's Group
- Science and non-science
- The Arctic Environmental Strategy
- The Lax'skiik project
PLANNING AND INFORMATION
- The role of planning
- The role of information
- The well-informed Dakota
- Getting information
- Uses of information
- Affirmative action in the Northwest Territories
FUNCTIONS OF PLANNING AND INFORMATION
GOALS
ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION
- Quality of life and standard of living
- Functionings and capabilities
- Social indicators
- Off-the-shelf indicators of change
- Custom-built indicators of change
- Complex systems of indicators
- Very complex systems of indicators
- A central role for local knowledge
- Indicators of political and cultural change
FORECASTING
TAKING
CONTROL OF INFORMATION
- Nin-Da-Waab-Jig
- The Prince Albert Tribal Council
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
CHAPTER SEVEN: PROSPECTS
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
- Model of change
- Goals
- Constraints
- Implementation
- Forecast
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
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