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Title Justice for natives : searching for common ground / edited by Andrea P. Morrison with Irwin Cotler
Published Montreal [Que.] : Published for InterAmicus, McGill University, Faculty of law by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents Contents -- Medicine Wheel -- Photos -- Introduction -- 1990 CONFLICT, SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIVE PEOPLES: SEARCHING FOR COMMON GROUND -- Opening Thanksgiving -- Native Women and the Indian Act: The Struggle for Justice (The Robert S. Litvack Memorial Award) -- Introduction -- Award Presentation -- Award Address -- Award Address -- Award Address -- PANEL ONE: Native Self-determination and Justice -- Native People within the Judicial System -- L'administration de la justice dans la province de Québec -- Fairness and Partnership in Justice Systems
The Incentive for Separate Justice SystemsQuestion Period -- PANEL TWO: Aboriginal Title and Land Claims -- Issues Raised by Aboriginal Title and Land Claims -- Les droits ancestraux et les titres au Canada: évolution ou révolution -- The Recollection of Historical Practice -- The Teme-Augama Anishnabay at Bear Island: Claiming our Homeland -- Question Period -- PANEL THREE: Self-Determination in the National and International Context -- The International Community and Self-Determination -- The Failure of International Law
Canadian Policies for Native Self-GovernmentAn Assessment of the Federal Self-Government Policy -- Question Period -- Closing Thanksgiving -- 1991 LESSONS FROM OKA: FORGING A BETTER RELATIONSHIP -- Opening Thanksgiving -- PANEL ONE: The Path to Crisis: Origins of Conflict -- Bringing the Constitution Home -- Constitutional Alternatives: In Defence of the Imperial Model -- The Legal Origins and Development of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights -- Indian Policy in the United States -- Question Period -- PANEL TWO: The Current Picture: Progress or Impasse?
Sovereignty and the Natural World EconomyDifferent Laws for Different People -- A Practical Assessment of Litigation for Native Peoples -- The Inherent Right to Self-Government -- Question Period -- PANEL THREE: Ways Forward: The Search for Just Solutions -- Notes on Sovereignty -- Systemic Approaches to a Changing World -- James Bay II: A Call to Action -- Question Period -- KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- A Time to Say No -- Closing Thanksgiving -- 1992 JUSTICE FOR NATIVES? -- PANEL ONE: Barriers to Justice -- The Judiciary as Anthropologists -- The Oka Trial
Question PeriodPANEL TWO: Legal Issues: Continuing Relations -- Crown Fiduciary Duties under the Indian Act -- Towards a New Relationship between First Nations and Ontario -- Question Period -- PANEL THREE: Models for Change -- Co-Management: Sharing the Land -- A Cree System of Justice: Implementing Change in the Justice System -- An Independent Native Judiciary -- Question Period -- EPILOGUE -- Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Bibliography
Summary "A collection of thirty-five essays and stories, Justice for Natives came together around the Oka crisis between native people in Quebec and the government. Against the backdrop of this deep-rooted conflict, Native elders and leaders, provincial and federal government representatives, leading academics, lawyers, and judges from across Canada and the United States joined to explore various aspects of Native peoples' struggle for justice and to search for solutions."--Jacket
Notes Edited papers from three conferences held at McGill University, Faculty of Law in 1990, 1991, and 1992
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Includes some text in French
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Subject Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Indigenes Volk
Recht
Aufsatzsammlung
Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Cotler, I. (Irwin), 1940-
Morrison, Andrea P., 1961-
InterAmicus (Association)
LC no. 98186068
ISBN 9780773566705
0773566708
1282854607
9781282854604
9786612854606
661285460X