ABSTRACT
Tertiary-level educational programmes are an important part of the struggle by members of Canada’s First Nations peoples to realise, within Canada’s political and economic structures, their rights as enshrined first in the various treaties they signed with the Crown and, more recently, in the Canadian Constitution. Out of these struggles, many aspects of Aboriginal life are coming under Aboriginal people’s own control. As a consequence, appropriately trained and educated Aboriginal people are needed to manage the resources and educational and health-care programmes that are coming under their jurisdiction.
