1. Aboriginal Rights - The Legal Context
"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ... The oppression was imposed through the White Paper, The Right to Vote, and the Indian Act. ... The White Paper had led to the indigenous community to retaliate and develop the Red Paper, which provided the necessary counter arguments to the White Paper. ... The Nisga'a people did not win their case it had made the government re-establish land rights for aboriginal people. ... "In 1991, the unemployment rate of Aboriginal peoples was almost twice the Canadian average: 19.4 percent...
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