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The Sovereignty and Nationhood of Canadian Indians: A Comment on Boldt and Long*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Thomas Flanagan
Thomas Flanagan
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University of Calgary
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 367 - 374
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1985

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3 Ibid., 551.

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7 See the entry under “nation” in the Oxford English Dictionary.

8 Of course the term never died out altogether; witness the “Six Nations.” But for the most part Indian claims were not couched in the language of nationalism.

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20 For example, Opekokew, Delia, The First Nations: Indian Government and the Canadian Confederation (Saskatoon: Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, 1980)Google Scholar. Although I do not deal with the Metis here, they, too, have adopted the rhetoric of nationalism. See, for example, Daniels, Harry W., We Are the New Nation (Ottawa: Native Council of Canada, 1979).Google Scholar

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