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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... North America – Canada – Government relations – Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Métis – Government relations – Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Inuit – Canada – Government relations – Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Indians of North ...
... North- eastern Quebec Agreement ( 1978 ) , status Indians and Inuit have not entered into any extensive political arrangements with the provinces . It is ironic , therefore , that the entrenchment of existing aboriginal rights in the ...
... North America , it was unknown among the First Nations for one nation to deprive another nation by force of its right to self - determination and to sufficient lands and resources to maintain the lives of its people . In Europe ...
... North Sea oil . Does one need more examples of the silliness of the federal argument ? Incongruously , the federal government claims all rights in aboriginal areas , although obviously it did not make use of those rights histori- cally ...
... North America I want to deal in this paper with our understanding of the meaning of ' aboriginal rights . ' First of all , I want to quote from a paper produced by the Union of Ontario Indians in 1970. I was president of the union at ...
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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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