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Author Scholtz, Christa

Title Negotiating Claims : the Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
Published Hoboken : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Contents Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Introduction; Chapter Two. Negotiation: Of Recognition and Delegation; Chapter Three. Indigenous Land Rights and Cabinet Decision-Making in Canada (1945-1973); Chapter Four. Cabinet Decision-Making and Maori Land Rights in New Zealand (1944-1989); Chapter Five. Cabinet Decision-Making and Indigenous Land Rights in Australia (1945-1998); Chapter Six. Litigation, not Negotiation: The American Land Claims Experience in Comparative Perspective; Chapter Seven. Beyond Negotiation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover
Summary Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? Addressing this question, this book argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people marginalize politically prior to significant judicial determinations on land rights, and not after judicial change alone
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203959886
0203959884
9781135507206
1135507201