... provisions. All amendments focussing on political, social, and economical concerns. Over the past two decades such issues as the White Paper, the entrenchment of Aboriginal eights in the constitution, the expectations for self-government created by the Penner Report, the community-based Indian self-government initiative, the Nielsen Report, the Meech Lake Accord and the most recent Royal ... , were not correctly implemented. Such advocates maintain that the reserves were intended to protect "Indians and Indian lands," from exploitation and violation from new settlers. In addition, the Can...

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... results, thus creating a broad-based community of interest among Canadians (O'Brien and Szeman, 2004). However, the mass media of today contributes significantly to the development of an awareness of a larger Canadian community. For instance, when the Leaf's are playing, many Canadians will put on their Leaf's jersey and head down to a local pub with a big-screen TV so that they can ... from storekeepers' and neighbours' windows, flapping in the breeze while passengers wave them from their cars. In the US, solemnly positioned in shop windows, the stars and stripes represent the constitu...

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... advocators of Christianity, and other religions, were about to make Aboriginal people their problem. "In the first few decades of the new Canadian Nation, when the government turned to address the constitutional responsibility for Indians and lands assigned by the Constitution Act of 1867, it adopted a policy of assimilation." The assimilation policy through the schools was to be beneficial but ended up ... early as 1874, mainly to meet its obligation, under the Indian Act, to provide an education to Aboriginal people, as well as to assist with their integration into the broader Canadia...

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