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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... Quebec Boundaries Extension Act of 1912, however, a number of Inuit residing in the James Bay area were brought under the provincial authority of Quebec. In 1939, the Supreme Court ruled that the Inuit came under the federal ...
... Quebec Agreements ( 1975 ) and the 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 ...
... Quebec Agreements and the Western Arctic Claim by the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie Delta and the western Beaufort Sea . The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agree- ments provide for cash grants of many millions of dollars , the allocation ...
... Quebec Agreements provide for cash grants of many millions of dollars, the allocation of lands for exclusive use by the Indians and Inuit, hunting and fishing rights, strengthened self-government, aboriginal control over education, and ...
... Quebec . We have a democratic government given to us by the Creator . The Royal Proclamation of 1763 refers to our sovereignty , and the government of Canada approached us as a nation to enter into a treaty with them . We continue to ...
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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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The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights Menno Boldt,J. Anthony Long,Leroy Little Bear Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
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