In our post colonial world, the word equality has more power in its context than most. Although by the time Canada was colonized and dominated by the colonial British, slavery had been abolished in the Empire, the belief in manifest destiny was still very apparent and as such policy tended to reflect a belief in the “savage” and “the other”. So does equality exist on the reserve and how much power do the constituents have to make sure that it continues? The search for documentation not based in propaganda about the economic equality of reserves led me to these articles that cover the spectrum of how “equal” it might be to live on a reserve.
Manufacturing regional disparity
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00445.x/pdf
Aboriginal income disparity
http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/journals/canadian_public_policy/v037/37.1.pendakur.html
Finding a leader
First nations values and positive change in the governing of parkland
http://link.springer.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10745-012-9495-2.pdf
The battle for equality conflicting with the understanding of ethics
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/science/article/pii/S019074091000294X