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02600aam a22003138i 4500 001 0B8866862DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190417s2019 mbc 000 0 eng 020 $a 9781927922569 020 $a 1927922569 035 $a (OCoLC)1097306975 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d VP@ $d OCLCQ $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn--- 055 0 $a E98 T77 J66 2019 100 1 $a Jones, Sheilla $e author. 245 10 $a Let the people speak : $b oppression in a time of reconciliation / $c Sheilla Jones ; with a foreword by Sheila North. 250 $a 1st edition. 263 $a 201908 264 1 $a Winnipeg, Manitoba : $b J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 224 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" delivering birth-to-death programs and services to First Nations, Inuit and MeÌtis people. This vast entity has jurisdictional reach over 90% of Canada's landscape, and an annual budget of some $20 billion. Yet Indigenous people have no means to hold this "super-province" accountable to them. Not a single person in this entity has been elected by Indigenous people to represent their interests. Not one. When it comes to federal Indigenous policy, ordinary Indigenous people in Canada are voiceless and powerless. In Let the People Speak, author and journalist Sheilla Jones raises an important question: are the well-documented social inequities in Indigenous communities--high levels of poverty, suicide, incarceration, children in care, family violence--the symptoms of this long-standing, institutionalized powerlessness? If so, the solution lies in empowerment. And the means of empowerment is already embedded in the historic treaties. Jones argues that there can be meaningful reconciliation only when ordinary Indigenous Canadians are finally empowered to make their voices heard, and ordinary non-Indigenous Canadians can join with them to advance a shared future. Topics: Canada reconciliation, Indigenous politics, Canadian Indigenous politics, First Nations, MeÌtis, Inuit"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $z Canada $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $z Canada $x Government relations. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802022054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B8866862DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search