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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... continues to be influenced by the same concerns , but the forum for resolving these issues has been expanded from the courts and the bureaucracy to include the constitutional conferences . In the first two periods the Canadian ...
... continue for the rest of her life . She said , ' I don't want to do this work for the rest of my life . ' He explained it to her as he explained it to me . He said , ' How would you feel if the rest of creation felt the way you did ...
... continuing pleasure of the crown . It did not carry with it rights of self - determination . International law has been struggling for several centuries to deal with this situation . Since the Second World War and the ostensible demise ...
... continue to have the right to enter into relations with other states . Under these criteria , the Nishnawbe - Aski have a solid basis for claiming our aboriginal right to determine what our future will be and to determine how we are ...
... continue to work together toward achieving our aboriginal and treaty rights . We will never give up these rights or our freedoms ! Section 37 of the Constitution Act , 1982 , states that the constitu- tional conferences on aboriginal ...
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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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