Megeney, Krista2024-01-032024-01-032024-01-03http://hdl.handle.net/10393/45779http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-29983I evaluate Will Kymlicka’s theory of multiculturalism in Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, and how it accounts for Indigenous nations in Canada. I ask whether any failures of multiculturalism can be attributed to either the normative or descriptive claims of his theory. I find points of failure in both claims, depending on the theme in question. Chapter 1 introduces the project and outlines subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 presents an account of Kymlicka’s multiculturalism (including why I chose Kymlicka’s framework as my focus) and the guiding questions of the thesis. Chapter 3 presents major legislation, policy, and jurisprudence in Canada concerning Indigenous nations and multiculturalism in practice. Chapter 4 examines four major claims or themes found in Chapter 2 against the material in Chapter 3: citizenship in Indigenous nations; the characterization of treaties; exercising group-differentiated rights, and; the Canadian state’s exercise of authority over Indigenous nations.enMulticulturalismPhilosophy of LawPolitical PhilosophyWill KymlickaIndigenous NationsIndigenous PeoplesNational MinorityNational MinoritiesGroup-differentiated RightsCanadian MulticulturalismCanadian LawMulticulturalism in CanadaCanadian PoliticsFirst NationsCanadaMulticultural CitizenshipNormative Political PhilosophyDescriptive Political PhilosophyThesis