| Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One
Aimée Craft
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►Through academic and oral history research, Craft details how an Indigenous understanding of the treaty agreement with new settlers meant using the land and resources together – it was about creating an ongoing relationship, and not about ceding land.
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Aboriginal Law: Commentary and Analysis
Thomas Isaac
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► Isaac provides commentary on, and analysis of, the most important aspects of Canadian law as it impacts on Aboriginal peoples and their relationship with the wider Canadian society. The complete Table of Contents appears on its dedicated page.
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A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
Ryan Meili
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► Through a mix of scholarship and story, the author proposes a new approach to politics. The use of human health as a measure of our success as a society, and the application of the ideas of the social determinants of health to public policy, appeals beyond political lines to common values.
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Postcolonial Sovereignty? The Nisga'a Final Agreement
Tracie Lea Scott
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► Author Tracie Lea Scott analyzes the impact the Nisga'a Final Agreement has on federal/provincial/First Nations relations, and in a concise manner examines the agreement's major terms.
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Related title: for Future Generations - see below
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Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity
Pamela Palmater
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► The author argues that the Indian Act's registration provisions (status) will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. The current status criteria contain descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants.
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Making a Living: Food, Place, and Economy in an Inuit Community
Nicole Gombay
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Rooted in phenomenological engagements with place, and using the commoditization of country foods harvested from the local environment as a vehicle, the author documents the experiences of an Inuit community as it strives to retain the values rooted in life on the land while adjusting to the realities of life in settlements.
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Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope, and Action
Edited by Jackie Hartley, Paul Joffe, and Jennifer Preston
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“The Declaration is a visionary step towards addressing the human rights of indigenous peoples ... it provides a momentous opportunity for States and indigenous peoples to ... promote reconciliation and ensure that the past is not repeated.” — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Contributors to this collection discuss the realization of the Declaration, and ways and means to implement it.
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