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On being here to stay : treaties and Aboriginal rights in Canada / Michael Asch.

Summary:

"What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada's assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country's vast territory? Why should Canada's original inhabitants have to ask for rights to what was their land when non-Aboriginal people first arrived? The question lurks behind every court judgment on Indigenous rights, every demand that treaty obligations be fulfilled, and every land-claims negotiation. Addressing these questions has occupied anthropologist Michael Asch for nearly thirty years. In On Being Here to Stay, Asch retells the story of Canada with a focus on the relationship between First Nations and settlers. Asch proposes a way forward based on respecting the ٢spirit and intent٣ of treaties negotiated at the time of Confederation, through which, he argues, First Nations and settlers can establish an ethical way for both communities to be here to stay." -- University of Toronto Press website, June 4, 2014

Record details

ISBN: 9781442610026
ISBN: 9781442640283
Physical Description: xi, 217 pages : 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Overview -- 2. Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution -- 3. Aboriginal Rights and Temporal Priority -- 4. Aboriginal Rights and Self-Determination -- 5. Treaty Relations -- 6. Treaties and Coexistence -- 7. Treaties and Sharing -- 8. Spirit and Intent -- 9. Setting the Record Straight -- Appendix I: Proportionality -- Appendix II: Treaty Map -- Notes -- References -- Index.