At the dawn of self‐government: A comparative study of the views of the Evenk of Russia and the Metis of CanadaFootnote¹

The author would like to thank the following people for their comments on this paper: Tom Pocklington, Menno Boldt, Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov, Gail Fondahl, Mary Louise McAllister, Ken Coates, and Bob Gilsdorf. Research for this paper was funded by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and by a Boreal Alberta Research Grant administered by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute. The author would like to thank the community members who gave generously of their time in the completion of the interviews.

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