Posluns Michael W. Speaking with Authority The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations’ Self-Government

Routledge, 2007. — xvii, 337 p. — ISBN: 0-203-94298-1.This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal witnesses before a series of Joint Committees on the Constitutions and the Commons Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development.Gaining a Purchase: An Introduction to the Public Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations’ Self-Government
The Interplay of Language, Policy and Ethics in the Discourse of First Nations’ Relations
Assimilation, Enfranchisement and the White Paper: An Overview of First Nations’ Relations Before 1970
Public Conversations on First Nations’ Self-Government
The Middle Period: A Minority Parliament and a First Patriation Bill
Notions of Sovereignty: Self-Help, Self-Confidence, and Individual and Collective Self-Fulfillment