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Author: Kent McNeil
Publisher: [Saskatoon] : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An attempt to define the exact boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-western Territory.
Author: Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780889772076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication is the inaugural volume of the History of the Prairie West series. Each volume in the series focuses on a particular topic and is composed of articles previously published in160;"Prairie Forum"160;and written by experts in the field. The original articles are supplemented by additional photographs and other illustrative material.
Author: Kent McNeil
Publisher: Saskatoon : Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9780888801180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the nature and extent of the obligation of the Canadian government to settle the aboriginal land claims in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the orders transferring the land in 1870.
Author: Arthur J. Ray
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0773520236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations-Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understanding, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780889821156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays covers a significant judgment in the history of British Columbia and land claims and aboriginal rights and title for the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Indians.
Author: Matt Bray
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-08-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1459719697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past two decades, the question of who owns the land of Temagami and how the land should be used has caused a debate of unparalleled intensity. For the native people, it is their lands under attack. For environmentalists from all parts of Ontario, it is a case of ecological preservation of a unique but fast-disappearing wilderness. For others, dependent upon the resource sector, it is a matter of economic survival, both individually and for their communities. In an attempt to clarify the issues surrounding Temagami, Laurentian University’s Institute of Northern Ontario Development and Research invited participants in the Temagami debate to a conference in October, 1989. What follows in this volume are eleven of the revised papers originally presented there. A balanced perspective on the issues at hand is coupled with the views of the various interest groups. Topics covered include aboriginal rights in Temagami, the development of a wilderness park system in Ontario, the management of multiple resources, the importance of tourism in Temagami and an environmentalist’s perspective.
Author: Kent McNeil
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0774861088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in the St. Catherine’s case. This precedent-setting decision would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years. In Flawed Precedent, preeminent legal scholar Kent McNeil examines the trial and its context in detail, demonstrating how erroneous assumptions and prejudicial attitudes about Indigenous peoples and their land use influenced the case. He also discusses the effects the decision had on law and policy until the 1970s when its authority was finally questioned in Calder and in other key rulings. McNeil has written a compelling account of a landmark case that undermined Indigenous land rights for almost a century.
Author: John S. Long
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2010-11-19
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 0773581359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No. 9 in 1905. For just as long, details about the signing of the constitutionally recognized agreement have been known only through the accounts of two of the commissioners appointed by the Government of Canada. Treaty No. 9 provides a truer perspective on the treaty by adding the neglected account of a third commissioner and tracing the treaty's origins, negotiation, explanation, interpretation, signing, implementation, and recent commemoration.
Author: Natalia Loukacheva
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0802094864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by outsiders. The Arctic Promise looks at how much the Inuit vision of self-governance relates to the existing public governance systems of Greenland and Nunavut, and how much autonomy there can be for territories that remain subordinate units of larger states. By means of a bottom-up approach involving cultural immersion, contextual, jurisprudential, and historical legal comparisons of Greenland and Nunavut, The Arctic Promise examines the forms, evolution, and scope of the right to autonomy in these Arctic jurisdictions. Loukacheva argues that the right to autonomy should encompass or protect Inuit jurisdiction in legal systems and the administration of justice, and should allow the Inuit direct participation in international affairs where issues that affect their homelands are concerned. The Arctic Promise deals with areas of comparative constitutional law, international law, Aboriginal law, legal anthropology, political science, and international relations, using each to contribute to the understanding of the right to indigenous autonomy.
Author: Terry Fenge
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0773597557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that followed it and the settlement and development of Canada. Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward, primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and Aboriginal leaders explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included. In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties – building blocks of Canada – are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments.
