The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal RightsMenno Boldt, J. Anthony Long University of Toronto Press, 1985 M12 15 - 463 páginas This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors’ earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains 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. The contributors represent a broad cross-section of tribal, geographic, and organizational perspectives. They discuss constitutional questions such as land rights, the concerns of Metis, non-status Indians, and Inuit; and native rights in broad contexts – historical, legal/constitutional, political, regional, and international. The issue of aboriginal rights and of what these rights mean in terms of land and sovereignty has become increasingly important on the Canadian political agenda. The constitutional conferences between government and aboriginal peoples have revealed the gulf between what each side means by aboriginal rights: for the Indians these rights are meaningless without sovereign self-government, an idea the federal and provincial governments are not willing to entertain. Somewhere in the middle lies the concept of nationhood status. Ultimately, the aboriginal peoples are asking for justice from the dominant society around them; if it is denied or felt to be denied, the editors conclude, the consequences for the Canadian self-concept would be costly and debilitating. The twenty-four contributors provide a find guide to this profound and complex problem, whose solution depends on our understanding and our political wisdom. |
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... Canada – Constitutional law – Addresses, essays, lectures. 7. Indians of North America – Canada – Civil rights – Addresses, essays, lectures. 8. Métis – Civil rights – Addresses, essays, lectures. 9. Inuit – Canada – Civil rights ...
... Canada. The amendment to the Indian Act could cause a population shift from non-status Indian to status Indian of up to 60,000 people. The Inuit are those aboriginal people who inhabit Canada's northernmost regions, including the ...
... Canada's northern- most regions , including the Mackenzie Delta , the Northwest Territo- ries , the area along ... Canada now includes under the category of Metis all people living in any part of Canada who claim mixed Indian and non ...
... Canada's policies toward non - status Indians . The United Nations Human Rights Commission's decision in the Sandra Lovelace case offers one example of such an induced policy change . The Canadian government , acting under the authority ...
... Canada determined the life - style of the particular tribe in whatever area of America they lived in . For instance ... Canada . We felt that the Canadian people had a right to their own constitution , but we also believed that the ...
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BRIAN SLATTERY | 114 |
SALLY WEAVER | 139 |
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU | 148 |
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BRIAN MULRONEY | 157 |
MENNO BOLDT AND J ANTHONY LONG | 165 |
Introduction | 183 |
WILLIAM B HENDERSON | 221 |
THOMAS FLANAGAN | 230 |
Peoples | 363 |
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