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Framing the Intervention: How Canada Staged its Takeover of the Lubicon Lake Nation
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- Author / Creator
- Bork, Dietlind L R
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In 2009, against the backdrop of halted land claim negotiations and increasing oil extraction from Lubicon traditional territory, a challenge was brought against the Lubicon custom election code. The challenge triggered a response from band members, a response later dismissed by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). This thesis presents the resulting situation as an impasse between conceptual frames. On the one hand, the majority of Lubicon people understand the issue of the disputed election code to have been resolved according to Lubicon custom. On the other hand, INAC officials have determined the Lubicon situation to be an ongoing internal leadership dispute, a determination that requires INAC to appoint a third party to manage Lubicon affairs on behalf of the Lubicon people. The thesis examines this intervention, and the consequences for the Lubicon, not as an INAC response to financial default, but as a political response stemming from INAC’s interests.
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- Subjects / Keywords
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- Media
- Oil
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- First Nation
- Indian Act
- Governance dispute
- Third party management
- Custom code
- Custom of the band
- Leadership dispute
- Indian band
- Custom Election Dispute Resolution Policy
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Lubicon
- Traditional territory
- Frame
- Aboriginal governance
- Human rights
- Election
- 2009
- Custom election dispute
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- Graduation date
- Spring 2012
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Arts
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.