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"This volume explores the yearning of Canadian (and American) Indians for self-government and the political, cultural, and legal difficulties that lie ahead. Together, the various papers by native North Americans and scholars clearly demonstrates the wide gap between the historical and philosophical ideas that inspire the Indian spokesman and those underlying the white man's contemporary world.

Indian contributors argue eloquently for their positions and perspectives while scholars examine the constraints upon and requisites for the overview of a debate now institutionalized in the political agenda of Canada.

This book is the first of its kind. It will be valuable to those involved in Indian politics at all levels, to a general public interested in the cause of Indian self-determination and its future, and to the students in sociology, native studies, law, and constitutional politics."--Back cover.