The Challenges and Solutions in Achieving Sovereignty by Aboriginals

The Challenges and Solutions in Achieving Sovereignty by Aboriginals
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The Challenges and Solutions in Achieving Sovereignty by Aboriginals
The First Nations individuals are divided into groups each of which is controlled by foreign constitution. The rules are implemented to be obeyed by anybody who resides in the country including the natives and the nonindigenous people. The new system of governance has led to the loss of the original customs of the Aboriginal people. Specifically, the native people of Canada such as the Nisga’s community have attempted to become independent and their right of cessation recognized (Bell, & Adams, 2016). The people have currently tried to achieve a system of self-governance which is different from the constitution that the foreigners enforced in the nation. However, the Aboriginals have seen several challenges in their journey to achieve self-government and have their identity recognized. Therefore, this work focuses on the problems faced by the Aboriginals in an attempt to achieve self-governance and the strategies to be adapted to achieve a meaningful and true justice.
The Aboriginals have seen several challenges in their attempt to become independent. First, their population size is small as compared to the non-indigenous people that reduce the level of influence which they have in the nation (Abele, Alexiuk & MacQuarrie, N.d). The rate of assimilation through intermarriages that occurred between the foreigners and the natives and the large number of the people who died while trying to defend their land reduced the population of the community. Moreover, the high rate of migration into the nation has also made their population size to be smaller than those of the foreigners. The small size of the population makes their efforts of having self-government and achieving self-determination meaningless (McLeod et al., 2015). Once an issue has been raised in a county, people must vote for or against the idea. However, the number of foreigners is greater than that of the natives which enable their decisions to prevail over those of the indigenous. As a result, the efforts of the Aboriginals in attempting the achieve sovereignty will always fail as it has to be in agreement with the interest of the public majority.
Moreover, the courts have failed to listen to their idea of becoming an independent nation. The cases are reported but the court proceedings are delayed, and, also they receive unfair rulings regarding the issue. Further, the courts base their ruling on the original treaties that were signed between the natives and the non-indigenous people. The treaties required everybody to abide by the Indian Act that was originally documented and implemented (Dussault & Erasmus, 1996). Additionally, the treaty was made to protect the identity of the natives. Therefore, it will be difficult to the natives to change the Act because they have little influence in the judicial system. Moreover, most of the workers at the courts are nonindigenous persons who do not support the idea. Therefore, they are able to influence the proceedings to delay the rulings, and, also give unfavorable judgment regarding the issue. Hence, so long as the justice system is still dominate...