ABSTRACT
This chapter takes the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations selfgovernment through the years 1972 to 1978. There were two parliaments during this six year period: the 29th Parliament and the 30th Parliament. The 29th Parliament elected on October 22, 1972, elected four years and four months after the first Trudeau Parliament, produced a minority government that lasted until 1974. (See Glossary.)
This is of particular interest to the story told here because a number of events that occurred in the Commons Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development (the Indian Affairs Committee) were facilitated by the Government’s lack of the control enjoyed by a Government with a majority in the House of Commons.
