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The Quest for Justice : Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights.

Includes some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal people's organizations, of governments, and of a variety of academic disciplines, along with introductions and an epilogue by the editors and appendices of the key constitutional documents from 1763.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boldt, Menno
Otros Autores: Long, Anthony, Long, J. Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Political and Philosophical Perspectives on Aboriginal Rights by Indian, Inuit, and Metis Leaders
  • Introduction
  • Traditional Native Philosophies Relating to Aboriginal Rights
  • Aboriginal Title and Aboriginal Rights: The Impossible and Unnecessary Task of Identification and Definition
  • A Treatise on the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of the Continent of North America
  • Identification and Definition of Our Treaty and Aboriginal Rights
  • The Inuit Perspective on Aboriginal Rights
  • Aboriginal Rights and Land Issues: The Metis Perspective
  • Aboriginal Rights: The Non-status Indian Perspective
  • 2 Aboriginal Rights in the Constitutional and Policy-Making Processes
  • Introduction
  • Aboriginal Rights in the Constitutional Process
  • An Alberta Perspective on Aboriginal Peoples and the Constitution
  • The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights in Canada
  • Federal Difficulties with Aboriginal Rights Demands
  • Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada to the Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters
  • Notes for an Opening Statement to the Conference of First Ministers on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples
  • Tribal Philosophies and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • 3 Historical and Contemporary Legal and Judicial Philosophies on Aboriginal Rights
  • Introduction
  • The Doctrine of Aboriginal Rights in Western Legal Tradition
  • Canadian Legal and Judicial Philosophies on the Doctrine of Aboriginal Rights
  • Metis Aboriginal Rights: Some Historical and Contemporary Problems
  • 4 Negotiated and Supranational Approaches to Securing Aboriginal Rights
  • Introduction
  • The Politics of Native Claims in Northern Canada
  • Aboriginal Rights: The James Bay Experience
  • Using Mediation to Resolve Disputes over Aboriginal Rights: A Case Study.
  • Aboriginal Rights: The Search for Recognition in International Law
  • Fourth World Wars: Indigenous Nationalism and the Emerging New International Political Order
  • 5 Aboriginal Rights and Indian Government
  • Introduction
  • Aboriginal Rights and the Penner Report on Indian Self-Government
  • Tribal Traditions and European-Western Political Ideologies: The Dilemma of Canada's Native Indians
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • A: Royal Proclamation of 1763 (excerpt)
  • B: A Declaration of the First Nations (1981)
  • C: Metis Declaration of Rights
  • D: First Ministers' Accord Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples in the Constitution, November 1981 (excerpt)
  • E: Sections of the Constitution Act, 1982, Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples
  • F: Resolution to Amend the Constitution Act, 1982 (1983)
  • G: Proposed Constitutional Accord on the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (1984)
  • H: Indian Treaty Areas
  • I: First Ministers' Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters: Proposed Accord Relating to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (1985)
  • Table of Cases
  • Notes
  • Contributors.