Education for Self-Determination.

Control over education is seen as an element of Aboriginal self-government. In the Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, it states, "When Aboriginal people seek the right to self-government, they mean the right to determine how matters such as health care, education, and child welfare are provided to their people, in their own communities" (Manitoba Public Inquiry 1991, 258). However, if Aboriginal people, in gaining control over education, replicate the schooling system, they will be perpetuating a system that robs people of self-determination.

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