Author: Louis A. Knafla
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774859296
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distinguished group of scholars whose work is showcased here, however, shows that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal title came from – and where it may be going – can also be enhanced by exploring legal developments in these former British colonies in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework. This path-breaking book offers a perspective on Aboriginal title that extends beyond national borders to consider similar developments in common law countries.
Author: Hamar Foster
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840110
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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In 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision in the Calder case, confirming that Aboriginal title constituted a right within Canadian law. Let Right Be Done examines the doctrine of Aboriginal title thirty years later and puts the Calder case in its legal, historical, and political context, both nationally and internationally. With its innovative blend of scholarly analysis and input from many of those intimately involved in the case, this book should be essential reading for anyone interested in Aboriginal law, treaty negotiations, and the history of the "BC Indian land question."
Author: Patricia Burke Wood
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774866349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach – investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land – to reframe the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to Indigenous territory. From the historical-geographic processes through which the BC polity became entrenched in its present territory to key events of the twenty-first century, the authors highlight the unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements. In the process, they demonstrate that only by understanding diverse interpretations of sovereignty, governance, territory, and property can we move toward meaningful reconciliation.
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780889821156
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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This collection of essays covers a significant judgment in the history of British Columbia and land claims and aboriginal rights and title for the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians.
Author: Peter Cook
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774863854
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’aṉ’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-embracing exploration of the struggle over land, To Share, Not Surrender advances the urgent task of reconciliation in Canada.
Author: Paul Tennant
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Aboriginal claims remain a controversial but little understood issue in contemporary Canada. British Columbia has been, and remains, the setting for the most intense and persistent demands by Native people, and also for the strongest and most consistent opposition to Native claims by governments and the non-aboriginal public. Land has been the essential question; the Indians have claimed continuing ownership while the province has steadfastly denied the possibility.
Author: Frank Cassidy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886451387
Category : Gitxsan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Christine J. Elsey
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773637193
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Poetics of Land and Identity is about the meaning of land for the many diverse First Nations within British Columbia. The work offers a study of the folklore and symbolic traditions within many Aboriginal regions and illustrates how these traditions emphasize the importance of orality and poetics as the defining factor in the value of land. Christine J. Elsey offers a deft, scholarly discussion of these “storyscapes,” providing us with a point of access for understanding First Nations’ perspectives on the world and their land. She provides an important alternative to the monetary, exploitative, resource-driven view of nature and land ownership and highlights the conflicts between the colonial, Western perspective of nature and the holistic view of First Nations people.
Author: Kent McNeil
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774861088
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in the St. Catherine’s case. This precedent-setting decision would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years. In Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil examines the trial and its context in detail, demonstrating how erroneous assumptions and prejudicial attitudes about Indigenous peoples and their land use influenced the case. He also discusses the effects the decision had on law and policy until the 1970s when its authority was finally questioned in Calder and in other key rulings. McNeil has written a compelling account of a landmark case that undermined Indigenous land rights for almost a century.
Author: Wendy Moss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gitksan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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This paper summarizes the issues, proceedings and findings of a significant court case brought by Gitskan and Wet'suwet'en chiefs in British Columbia against the Crown, to determine whether native peoples have sovereignty over the land, as opposed to the government view of aboriginal rights as a right to use and occupy Crown land for subsistence and cultural purposes.
