New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council - NBAPC

To the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council, self-government begins – but
does not end – with control over our land. Government means jurisdiction over our
renewable and non-renewable resources, education, health and social services,
public order and the shape and composition of our political institutions. While
some of our plans may sound far-reaching to some people, they should not be
regarded as a threat. We do not want to recreate a world that has vanished. We do
not want to turn back the clock. Far from it. We welcome the challenge to see our
culture grow and change in directions that we have chosen for ourselves. We do
not want to become the objects of sentimentality. Nor do we want our culture to be
preserved in amber for the amusement or even the edification of others. What we
do want, what we demand, is nothing more than control over our own lives and
destiny. That control is called “SELF-GOVERNMENT”.