A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada

Miller, David Reed; Titley, E. Brian

doi:10.2307/968278

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“…Given this possibility, it is worth remembering that this structure has been imposed onto certain Indigenous peoples by Canada and is therefore legitimate only insofar as settler colonial law makes it so (Boldt 1993, 125-26). Scholars have described the Chief and Council system as a dysfunctional form of government created as part of the state's (legal) assimilation of Indigenous nations (Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 1996, 237;Borrows 2017a, 121), one predicated on the disempowerment of all but a few political elites (Boldt 1993, 129) and forced onto Indigenous nations in a constitutional landscape that leaves no room for inherent Indigenous political authority (Monture-Angus 1999, 34;Titley 1986;Pasternak 2017). Specifically, it was designed to replace inherent Indigenous governance systems with municipal-type political bodies (Canada, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 1996, 132, 253), the adoption of which settler colonial bureaucrats considered "a mark of progress and civilization" (Daugherty and Madill 1980, 2).…”

Section: Indigenous Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Remaining Unreconciled: Philanthropy and Indigenous Governance in Canada

Lee

2023

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While the Income Tax Act provides structure to philanthropic activity in Canada, an Indigenist reading of it shows that it is also a part of state-building at the expense of inherent Indigenous governance systems. By shaping philanthropic gift giving, this paper shows, the act plays a role in precluding inherent Indigenous leaders from accessing fiscal support based on their own political authority.

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Section: Indigenous Governancementioning

confidence: 99%