Canadian politics-- aboriginal politics in canada

"Aboriginal peoples have achieved considerable clarity and compromise in devising twentieth-century means of expressing their shared wishes to continue to live as Aboriginal people, with adequate political and economic arrangements."(Bickerton, p. 443) Native people have fought and struggled for a very long time to attain representative rights that are important to their survival as a collectivity. Since the implementation of the White Paper in 1969, the Aboriginal people have fought long and hard over the past …

…It has been a continuous and extensive battle for the Aboriginal people but it has resulted in success. This attainment is mostly evident with the creation of the new territory Nunavut. If the Inuit people of Canada can gain their own self-determination and distinction in this way then it is highly feasible that the remaining Aboriginal peoples of Canada can come to similar agreements with the Canadian government to achieve this goal in the future.