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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... courts and the bureaucracy to include the constitutional conferences . In the first two periods the Canadian government pursued the general strategy of treating each major aboriginal group ( Indians , Inuit , and Metis ) differently ...
... courts . Indians and Inuit have had mixed results in gaining judicial acceptance of their claims . The Supreme Court's judgment in the Calder case ( 1973 ) , which involved a claim based on aboriginal title by the Nishga Indians of ...
... court's indecision spurred the federal government to develop a policy of negotiating land claims based on historical claims to aboriginal title . Federal officials feared that if , in some future test case , aboriginal title should be ...
... courts . Aboriginal leaders , especially Indian leaders , are beginning to ques- tion the benefits of constitutional recognition of their rights , however . The federal government's promises that native peoples would have a strong voice ...
... court interpretation . As far as the courts are concerned aboriginal rights are conceptual rights only ; that is to say , they are a concept that exists only in the mind until drafted into some kind of law that makes sense in a legal ...
Contenido
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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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