Part one: Introduction. Historical overview and background / Roger Gibbins, J. Rick Ponting -- Socio-Demographic Conditions of Registered Indians / Andrew J. Siggner -- Relations between Bands and the Department of Indian Affairs: A Case of Internal Colonialism? / J. Rick Ponting -- Sex Discrimination and the Indian Act / Kathleen Jamieson -- Part Two: Economic and Community Development. Editor's Introduction -- Institution-Building in an Indian Community: A Case Study of Kahnawake (Caughnawaga) / J. Rick Ponting -- Probable Economic Impact of a Mackenzie Valley Pipeline / Thomas R. Berger -- Economic Development Provisions of the New Claims Settlements / J. Rick Ponting -- Some Reflections on Indian Economic Development / Cam Mackie -- Part Three: Aborigional Rights and Claims. Editor's Introduction -- Aborigional Rights and the Canadian "Grundnorm" / Leroy Little Bear -- Education and the Reclaiming of Identity: Rights and Claims of Canadian Indians, Norwegian Sami, and Australian Aborigines / Deirde F. Jordan -- Native Claims and Settlement in Yukon / James S. Frideres -- Canadian Indians and the Canadian Constitution: A Difficult Passage Toward an Uncertain Destination / Roger Gibbins -- Part Four: Indian Self-Government. Editor's Introduction -- Proposals for Indian Self-Government / Special Parliamentary Committee on Indian Self-Government -- Native Societies: The Professions as a Model of Self-Determination for Urban Natives / William J. Reeves -- Impact of Self-Government on Indian Communities / J. Rick Ponting -- Citizenship, Political, and Intergovernmental Problems with Indian Self-Government / Roger Gibbins -- Government of Aborigional Peoples in Other Countries / Walter Rudnicki, Harold Dyck -- Part Five: Conclusion. Assessing a Generation of Change / J. Rick Ponting