Aboriginal title and indigenous peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

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KM208.I5A2674 2010

UBC Press

2010

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Introduction: 'This is our land' : aboriginal title at customary and common law in comparative context / Louis A. Knafla I. Sovereignty, extinguishment, and expropriation of aboriginal title   1. From the US Indian Claims Commission ca...

Introduction: 'This is our land' : aboriginal title at customary and common law in comparative context / Louis A. Knafla 

I. Sovereignty, extinguishment, and expropriation of aboriginal title

•    1. From the US Indian Claims Commission cases to Delgamuukw: facts, theories, and evidence in North American land claims / Arthur Ray 
•    2. Social theory, expert evidence, and the Yorta Yorta rights appeal decision / Bruce Rigsby 
•    3. Law's infidelity to its past : the failure to recognize indigenous jurisdiction in Australia and Canada / David Yarrow 
•    4. The defence of native title and dominion in sixteenth-century Mexico compared with Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra 
•    5. Beyond Aboriginal title in Yukon : First Nations Land Registries / Brian Ballantyne 

II. Native land, litigation, and indigenous rights

•    6. The 'race' for recognition: toward a policy of recognition of Aboriginal peoples in Canada / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand 
•    7. The sources and content of Indigenous land rights in Australia and Canada : a critical comparison / Kent McNeil 
•    8. Common law, statutory law, and the political economy of the recognition of indigenous Australian rights in land / Nicolas Peterson 
•    9. Claiming native title in the foreshore and seabed / Jacinta Ruru 
•    10. Waterpower developments and native water rights struggles in the North American west in the early twentieth century: a view from three Stoney Nakoda cases / Kenichi Matsui 

Conclusion: Power and principle: state-indigenous relations across time and space / Peter W. Hutchins

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.