Endnotes to Chapter 8

1 Jack Stillborn, 1986, Government Restraint: An Issue of the Eighties, Parliamentary Research Branch, Library of Parliament, published April 17, 1986, revised April 20, 1990, 5.

2 Erik Nielsen, 1985, Memorandum to Cabinet: Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Native Programs. Deputy PM Erik Nielsen was mandated to secretly review five spending areas in government, one of which was “Indian and native programs.” https://www.scribd.com/document/330654416/Memo-to-Cabinet-on-Native-Programs-Buffalo-Jump-of-1980-s-April-12-1985.

3 Ibid., 11.

4 David Munro, ADM Indian Affairs, in a memo dated April 1, 1970, as quoted in “Prime Minister Harper Launches First Nations ‘Termination Plan,’” by Russell Diabo, Global Research, January 10, 2013 https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-prime-minister-harper-launches-first-nations-termination-plan/5318362.

5 Nielsen, 1985, 11.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid., 13.

8 Ibid., 3.

9 Ibid., 21, 35.

10 Ibid., 56.

11 Ibid., 9.

12 Menno Boldt, 1993, Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government, University of Toronto Press, 295.

13 Nielsen, 1985, 11.

14 Ibid., 57.

15 Ibid., 1.

16 Ibid., 9.

17 Gina Cosentino, and Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, 2007, “Dream Catching Mulroney Style: Aboriginal Policy and Politics in the Era of Brian Mulroney,” in Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney, editor Raymond B. Blake, McGill-Queen’s University Press.

18 Boldt, 1993, 296.

19 Jill Wherrett, 1999, Aboriginal Self-Government, a report prepared for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Government of Canada, http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/CIR/962-e.htm.

20 Harvey McCue, 1999, Self-Government Agreements and Jurisdiction in Education, a report prepared for the Assembly of First Nations, 10.

21 Jennie Wastesicoot, 2004, “A Cultural Framework for Cree Self-Government: Retracing Our Steps Back,” M.A. Thesis, University of Manitoba, 75.

22 Ibid, 77.

23 Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, 1994, The Dismantling of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Restoration of Jurisdiction to First Nations People in Manitoba and Recognition of First Nations Governments in Manitoba, Framework Agreement Workplan, Memorandum of Understanding, as quoted in Wastesicoot, 2004, 76.

24 Wastesicoot, 2004, 79.

25 Frank Cassidy, 1990, “Self-Determination, Sovereignty and Self-Government,” Aboriginal Self-Determination: Proceedings of a Conference held September 30 - October 3, 1990, ed. Frank Cassidy, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1.

26 Mia Rabson, “Abandoned grand plan cost $55M - Nothing to show for run at native self-government,” Winnipeg Free Press, February 12, 2008.

27 Michael Lawrenchuk, 1999, Evidence, Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, Issue No. 25, April 13, 1999.

28 Ibid.

29 Wastesicoot, 2004, 81.

30 Ibid., 85.

31 Rabson, 2008.

32 Aboriginal Affairs’ internal watchdog target of investigation, APTN National News, October 31, 2012, http://aptnnews.ca/2012/10/31/aboriginal-affairs-internal-watchdog-target-of-investigation/.