This book looks at the issues from an international perspective and explores developments in various countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and also at the work of the United Nations and all relevant ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book reconstructs the legal quest for defining the just order between the Aboriginal peoples of the Americas and the Holy See of the Catholic Church and the Castillian and French kings during the Holy Roman Empire.

Looking at the issues from an international perspective, this book explores developments in various countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and also the work of the United Nations and relevant international ...

The full text of the Declaration and selected excerpts of other key international agreements are included.

"In this text, James Youngblood Henderson explores the crisis of interpretation that eventually confronted the courts in the constitutional guarantee of Aboriginal rights to First Nations.

This book is written from the traditions and perspectives of the Mi'kmaw Nation, one of nations of the Confederacy.

This is followed by a critical review of changes in Europeans' interpretation of their treaties with indigenous or tribal peoples, and a comparison of contemporary Anglo-Canadian law with the most recent decisions of United Nations bodies"- ...

This book is a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary project exploring the meaning of Aboriginal and treaty rights in the constitution of Canada.