Introduction
In May 2016, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett officially endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP). Accepting it, Canada removed the qualifier that the declaration was aspirational and not legally binding as the previous government had included. This seemed like a giant leap forward in the story of reconciliation and recognition of Aboriginal peoples. However, with this came the change in the naming of Aboriginal peoples in Canada and uncertainty regarding the meaning, intent, and extent of the new descriptor.
There continues to be a lack of certainty surrounding the terminology that attempts to encapsulate the multiple nations residing in the territories recognized as Canada. The discourse surrounding who has rights to name and deny the naming of the territory and its peoples is for another day. Suffice to say that for the purpose of this writing, Canada and Canadian Aboriginals will be used to denote the...
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McIntyre, D. (2019). Canadian Aboriginal State of Exclusion in Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_650-1
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