Questioning the ability of political organizations to assist in fully
eradicating the oppression of First Nations and their citizens, the
author critically reflects on the meaning of "self-government"--and the
obstacles as well as solutions to some of its challenges. Concluding
that self-government as a goal is too narrow and overly inundated by
colonial meanings to be a full solution, Monture-Angus rejects the idea
of "self-government" in favor of a much larger idea, independence.