Table of Contents
Foreword: letters from the trenches 7
Part 1 Concerning aboriginal rights 17
i Aboriginal rights and human rights: some thoughts 17
ii Socialism and native americans: a theoretical parenthesis 25
iii Aboriginal rights are not human rights 37
iv The emperors old clothes 72
Part 2 50 years of struggle 79
i 50 years in indian country 80
ii Inuit country 97
iii The violence of the letter: land claims and the continuing colonial conquest 103
iv Towards a new policy paradigm for first peoples 112
v Turning the page on colonial oppression: defenders of the land and idle no more! 118
Part 3 Damned on this earth 127
i Flooded and forgotten: hydro development makes a battleground of northern manitoba 128
ii The wolf has begun to howl: a report on the camp at grand rapids 134
iii How to build a legacy of hatred 140
iv As long as the money flows 148
v Marginal comment on another new building in downtown Winnipeg 156
Postscript: bush culture for a bush country 157
Sources 171