ABSTRACT
This chapter uses the case of Canada to examine the ethical responsibilities of policy-makers towards indigenous peoples, to correct the background injustice of settler-indigenous relations. Past public policy reveals five ideal-type normative orientations towards indigenous people: eliminationism, paternalism, self-government, legalism, and reconciliation. Each has significant limitations. Future policy should be guided by the two forms of respect that the state owes indigenous people: the respect owed to all citizens as free and equal persons, and cross-cultural respect for indigenous people as indigenous. The chapter develops a model of cross-cultural respect based on interpretations of the historic Two-Row Wampum treaty.
