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

Knafla, Louis A., 1935- (Added Author). Westra, Haijo Jan, 1947- (Added Author).

Summary: "Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. These cases and others have in recent years created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The contributors to this path-breaking book argue that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal title came from -- and where it may be going -- can also be enhanced by exploring legal developments in these former British settler colonies in a comparative and multidisciplinary framework.

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ISBN: 9780774815604
ISBN: 0774815604
ISBN: 9780774815611
ISBN: 0774815612
Physical Description: print
vi, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-248) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

From the US Indian Claims Commission cases to Delgamuukw : facts, theories, and evidence in North American land claims / Arthur Ray -- Social theory, expert evidence, and the Yorta Yorta Rights Appeal Decision / Bruce Rigsby -- Law's infidelity to its past : the failure to recognize indigenous jurisdiction in Australia and Canada / David Yarrow -- The defence of Native title and dominion in sixteenth-century Mexico compared with Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra -- Beyond Aboriginal title in Yukon : First Nations Land Registries / Brian Babllantyne -- The "race" for recognition : toward a policy of recognition of Aboriginal peoples in Canada / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand -- The sources and content of Indigenous land rights in Australia and Canada : a critical comparison / Kent McNeil -- Common law, statutory law, and the political economy of the recognition of indigenous Australian rights in land / Nicolas Peterson -- Claiming native title in the foreshore and seabed / Jacinta Ruru -- 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.