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Patricia Monture Presentation

Professor Monture uses her own experience to talk about empowerment, "a revolution in Indian country". Click on "Play" button to start the video [31:07].
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Audience Questions

Q1 How do we balance our culture and who we are as a people of the past with new ways of governing?

Q2 Is there an order of importance you'd put this in? Capacity building, administration of justice, adequate resources, citizenship issues?

Audience Questions [answered by Herb George]

Q3 What kind of commitment and buy-in are you getting from aboriginal political leaders when there's such resistance to the concepts of self-governance? How do you hit the road with this at the community level?

Q4 You've talked a lot about the benefits of capacity building, accountability and self-governance on reserve. In every reserve there is a parallel urban "nation". To what extent is that urban nation being included in this strategy?