Our Land Native Rights Canadian

Summary: Describes pre-contact Inuit and Indian cultures in Canada and documents effects of European contact and subsequent Indian policy. Also explains current native rights issues: land claims, economic development, self-government, and constitutional protection. Includes separate chapter about Metis.

Record details

ISBN: 0888629745
Physical Description: 252 pages ; 19 cm.
Publisher: Toronto, Canada James Lorimar & Co. 1986

Content descriptions

General Note:	Indexed
Formatted Contents Note:	The First Peoples -- The recognition of Native rights -- National Indian Policy -- Treaties : for as long as the sun shines -- The Indian Act and Indian Affairs Bureaucracy -- The Metis -- The 1970s and 1980s : a time of change -- The Future and Native Rights.