A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective, Promote the IndividualIn our time, different ideas of the relationship between the individual and the col- lective underlie the tensions between the secular west and Islam. [...] The concepts begin with a description of the different form of citi- zenship contemplated for Indians and takes an initial look at the tension between the individual and the collective. [...] Chapter 4 enters into the philosophy of the relationship between the individual and the collective, beginning with the major questions and a taxonomy of collectives. [...] The thinking of Gerald Taiaiake Alfred and Tom Flanagan (as polar positions on this topic) is described with a deeper explo- ration of the thinking of Alan Cairns, Charles Taylor, and Will Kymlicka on such matters as the internal and external relationships of the collective, the dilemma of the liberal confronted with illiberal possibilities of his belief, Bradford Morse on the inherent right, and [...] Treaties have been adopted as the means of resolving major outstanding questions, and it is only reasonable to expect that the major gains being won by tribes in this process will in due course force the re- opening of existing treaties negotiated in the circumstances of a hundred years and more ago, at the very least in the area of self-government. |
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