En 1972, la Fraternité des Indiens du Canada — maintenant connue comme l’Association des Premières Nations — a publié un document qui faisait date, sous le titre La maîtrise indienne de l’éducation indienne, qui a éclairé directement l’élaboration du projet de loi.
In fact, they have been calling for this for four decades now. The National Indian Brotherhood, as it was then known, and now known as the Assembly of First Nations, released its landmark paper in 1972, entitled “Indian Control of Indian Education”.