Silent Voices: Rule by Policy on Canada's Indian Reserves

Author:   Mel Bevan
Publisher:   Tellwell Talent
ISBN:  

9780228861560


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 December 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Silent Voices: Rule by Policy on Canada's Indian Reserves


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Mel Bevan set out to write the book never before written to find the root cause of the helplessness of the people who live on Canada's Indian reservations. Bevan examines the laws, policies, and practices of the government of Canada and the provinces to find the reason archaic practices continue unabated to the present day. Native leaders accept the laws, policies, and rules not because they generally agree with them; they accept them because they have little or no alternative. The people who live on the reserves have no method of changing their living conditions. The Indian Act and its regulations, along with rules, policies, and political decisions, both national and provincial, collectively fabricate and entrench a self-correcting and self-perpetuating system. The overall system fosters dysfunction, and the dysfunction created by the system fuels the system in a never-ending circle. The system is self-correcting-any improvements achieved in some communities by progressive leaders revert to the original conditions or become worse when progressive leaders are eventually replaced. The sum of all actions and policies of colonial governors, laws, and policies created and enforced by successive governments of Canada and the refusal of provincial and territorial governments to consider residents of Indian reserves in the same context as their respective citizens has deeply entrenched the deadlocked public policy of Canada, perpetuating the endless struggle to nowhere.

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Author:   Mel Bevan
Publisher:   Tellwell Talent
Imprint:   Tellwell Talent
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780228861560


ISBN 10:   022886156
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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The book is based on Mel Bevan's experience and the events and actions witnessed and worked on over sixty years as a council member, chief councillor, band manager, chief executive officer, regional leader, accountant, treaty negotiator, consultant, and financial advisor, and years of involvement in provincial and national Indian politics.

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