Who Are Indigenes? A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Practices

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ID3758889
AuthorsB G Miller (0000-0003-4951-1664, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume50
Issue4
Pages462-477
Publication date2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764206294056
OpenAlexW2084824284
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

There are currently hundreds of groups in the United States and Canada that clamor for state-to-state recognition by the federal governments as bona fide Indigenous peoples. This comparative study of American and Canadian policy and practice toward these nonrecognized communities is set in a historical perspective, focusing on legislation, administrative policy, and legal judgments that affect conceptualizations of Indigenes. This article argues that differences in these policies arise from divergences in national understandings regarding who Indigenous peoples are and how they can be administered and costs suppressed. The author contrasts the ways in which a formal and elaborate U.S. bureaucracy assesses candidate communities for recognition by applying flawed legal tests with a Canadian practice that largely overlooks the issue of nonrecognized communities

Bureaucracy · Indigenous · Legislation · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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