... that both doctrines are racist. Both are inconsistent with modern international law. The United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations rejects both doctrines. Canadian law has never used either "discovery" or "terra nullius." Our legal tradition has been so self-confident, so arrogant, that it felt ... section of the Constitution was at best ambiguous, at worst a con job. If there was no recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights in Canadian law before 1982, then section 35 had "recognized and affirmed" nothing. Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of ....

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In the national bestseller Green Grass, Running Water, Canadian author Thomas King deals with several social and cultural issues, the most prevalent being the perpetual demand on the Natives to assimilate themselves with the predominant Christian Caucasians. King sheds much light on the history of the Native Culture, the incarceration of the seventy-two Indians at Fort Marion in the late eighteen ... and he begins the story all over again. ""In the beginning there was just the water."" (431) King's repetition of the story of creation, emphasizes how dramatically the Judeo- Christian culture...

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... for a long period of time. However both of these ethnic groups are stereotyped, to an extent, because of history and therefore, do not have the ability to raise their status. Canadian sociologist John Porter wrote the vertical mosaic, which challenges the myth that Canada is a patchwork. He agreed that we do have a vertical mosaic but it is a ladder rather than a patchwork ... . This is because within Canada we are free to practice our own culture however, it results in consequences in terms of one's social class. The very top of the ladder is closed off and reserved for only a certain e...

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