Indigenous Peoples -- Canada -- Politics and Government, Indigenous self-government Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc., Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government, Indigenous peoples -- Urban residence -- Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Urban residence, Métis -- Urban residence, Métis -- Politics and government, Inuit -- Urban residence, Inuit -- Politics and government, Urban youth -- Political activity -- Canada 

"Reports on the findings of a joint research project that focused on Aboriginal governance in urban settings and the challenge of engaging youth. The project involved literature reviews, legal policy analysis, program & service documentation, best practices surveys, and ten focus circles with Aboriginal groups. The introduction sets the context for the project, discusses four lines of debate regarding Aboriginal urban self-government, and reviews the rest of the report. Part II sets out two broad normative frameworks for examining proposals for urban self-government in order to explore key issues involved in considering various governance options. Part II subjects basic models advanced to date for urban governance to a three-step assessment. It first reviews self-government models commonly suggested in the two dominant normative frameworks of Aboriginal rights law and democratic liberalism. It then draws on field research to assess issues of practicality in relation to urban governance. Finally, the report reviews the perceptions of urban Aboriginal people themselves, and particularly the youth that participated in the focus circles, as to their own sense of priorities and preferences for the nature and form that urban governance should take. Appendices include an annotated bibliography, responses to a survey of urban youth programs, and focus circle results."--WorldCat.org.