Aboriginal policy development within the BC NDP : 1969-1990

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dc.contributor.authorReeve, Daniel Charles Haydenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T17:36:22Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T17:36:22Z
dc.date.copyright2002en_US
dc.date.issued2002
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis tracks the development of Aboriginal policy within the British Columbia (BC) New Democratic Party (NDP) between 1969 and 1990 .. In this period, the BC NDP (the Party) begins to turn away from its traditional integrationist values (founded on principles oflegal, political, and economic equality) towards a vision which recognises distinct Aboriginal rights (specifically, Aboriginal title, the inherent right of Aboriginal self-government, and the necessity of the province to enter treaty negotiations to address these rights). In addition to the influence of prominent Party members (such as Bob Williams, Norm Levi, George Watts, Bob Skelly, and Mike Harcourt), significant actors on the Party's immediate periphery (the major BC Aboriginal political organisations, the Federal government, the BC Social Credit Party, and the provincial and federal courts) play an import role informing the Party's Aboriginal policy. Because the Party lacked a definitive policy process (and thus a definitive policy statement on Aboriginal issues) until the leadership of Mike Harcourt, the Party's policy voice was found in a wide variety of sources including resolutions, initiated government policy, campaign literature, press releases, and leadership pronouncements. From this cacophonous and often contradictory collection of policy visions, the Party gradually, unevenly, and reluctantly adopted a new vision for Aboriginal / non-Aboriginal relations based on inherent Aboriginal rights.
dc.format.extent202 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/19386
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleAboriginal policy development within the BC NDP : 1969-1990en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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