Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada
These essays aim to address, and redress, this bias of the colonial doctrine that continues to define and shape Aboriginal and treaty rights in the Canadian legal system.
- Copyright year: 1997
Once Upon an Oldman
Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.
- Copyright year: 1999
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage
A Global Challenge
An international appraisal of how current legal regimes worldwide fail to protect Indigenous knowledge and what needs to change
- Copyright year: 2000
In Search of Sustainability
British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s
A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.
- Copyright year: 2001
Shifting Boundaries
Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government
Using relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.
- Copyright year: 2003
Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice
A multi-faceted consideration and critique of the compelling and emotionally seductive rhetoric of restorative justice.
- Copyright year: 2004
Insiders and Outsiders
Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship
Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.
- Copyright year: 2004
Advancing Aboriginal Claims
Visions/Strategies/Directions
Policy, philosophy, strategy, and legal arguments are combined to build innovative strategies to advance Aboriginal claims.
- Copyright year: 2005
Between Justice and Certainty
Treaty Making in British Columbia
Examines the interplay between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal visions of justice and certainty to determine whether there is a space between the two concepts in which modern treaties can be made.
- Copyright year: 2005
A Breach of Duty
Fiduciary Obligations and Aboriginal Peoples
The government, Guerin, and the golf course: the inside story of the Musqueam people’s 26-year struggle to right the injustice done to them by the federal government in leasing their land as a golf course.
- Copyright year: 2005
Global Biopiracy
Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge
Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.
- Copyright year: 2005
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
- Copyright year: 2007
Navigating Neoliberalism
Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation
This remarkable book argues that neoliberalism, which drives government policy concerning First Nations in Canada, can also drive self-determination -- including the Mikisew First Nation, which successfully exploited opportunities for greater autonomy and well-being that the current political and economic climate has presented.
- Copyright year: 2008
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
- Copyright year: 2008
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2009
First Nations, First Thoughts
The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
A thought-provoking volume that brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinkers and activists to explore the innovations and challenges that Indigenous thought continues to bring to Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Negotiating the Numbered Treaties
An Intellectual and Political History of Alexander Morris
The story of the prairie treaties and Alexander Morris, a man who embraced a larger concept of nationhood and the role of First Nations in the expansion of Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
- Copyright year: 2009
Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
This third edition of a classic brings readers up to date on treaty negotiations in British Columbia and is a valuable resource for those interested in the treaty process both in BC and Canada.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Duty to Consult
New Relationships with Aboriginal Peoples
What does the duty to consult actually mean, and when it is required? The policies and decisions made regarding this duty are concisely outlined, along with important questions that remain.
- Copyright year: 2009