The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights

Published by University of Toronto Press 1985

The Quest for Justice

Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights

Edited by: Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442657762

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Boldt Menno :

Menno Boldt is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.

Long J. Anthony :

J. Anthony Long is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Political and Philosophical Perspectives on Aboriginal Rights by Indians, Metis, and Inuit Leaders
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Traditional Native Philosophies Relating to Aboriginal Rights Oren Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Aboriginal Title and Aboriginal Rights: The Impossible and Unnecessary Task of Identification and Definition David Ahenakew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
A Treatise on the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of the Continent of North America Fred Plain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Identification and Definition of Our Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Chief John Snow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
The Inuit Perspective on Aboriginal Rights Peter Ittinuar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Aboriginal Rights and Land Issues: The Metis Perspective Clem Chartier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Aboriginal Rights: The Non-status Indian Perspective Bill Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
2 Aboriginal Rights in the Constitutional and Policy-Making Processes
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Aboriginal Rights in the Constitutional Process Roy Romanow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
An Alberta Perspective on Aboriginal Peoples and the Constitution Richard Dalon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights in Canada Brian Slattery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Federal Difficulties with Aboriginal Rights Demands Sally Weaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada to the Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters, 8-9 March 1984 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Notes for an Opening Statement to the Conference of First Ministers on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Brian Mulroney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Tribal Philosophies and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
3 Historical and Contemporary Legal and Judicial Philosophies on Aboriginal Rights
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
The Doctrine of Aboriginal Rights in Western Legal Tradition James Youngblood Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Canadian Legal and Judicial Philosophies on the Doctrine of Aboriginal Rights William B. Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Metis Aboriginal Rights: Some Historical and Contemporary Problems Thomas Flanagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
4 Negotiated and Supranational Approaches to Securing Aboriginal Rights
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
The Politics of Native Claims in Northern Canada Gurston Dacks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Aboriginal Rights: The James Bay Experience Billy Diamond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Using Mediation to Resolve Disputes over Aboriginal Rights: A Case Study Leon Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Aboriginal Rights: The Search for Recognition in International Law Douglas Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Fourth World Wars: Indigenous Nationalism and the Emerging New International Political Order Rudolph Ryser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
5 Aboriginal Rights and Indian Government
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Aboriginal Rights and the Penner Report on Indian S elf-Government Paul Tennant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Tribal Traditions and European-Western Political Ideologies: The Dilemma of Canada's Native Indians Menno Boldt and J. Anthony Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Appendices
A/Royal Proclamation of 1763 (excerpt) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
B / A Declaration of the First Nations (1981) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
C/Metis Declaration of Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
D/First Ministers' Accord Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples in the Constitution, November 1981 (excerpt) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
E / Sections of the Constitution Act, 1982, Pertaining to Aboriginal Peoples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
F / Resolution to Amend the Constitution Act, 1982(1983) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
G/Proposed Constitutional Accord on the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (1984) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
H/Indian Treaty Areas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
I/First Ministers’ Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters: Proposed Accord Relating to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (1985) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Table of Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 463

eBook

Published: December 15, 1985
ISBN: 9781442657762