Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty

Author: Bruce Clark

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1990-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0773562540

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The cornerstone of Clark's argument is the 1763 Royal Proclamation which forbade non-natives under British authority to molest or disturb any tribe or tribal territory in British North America. Clark contends that this proclamation had legislative force and that, since imperial law on this matter has never been repealed, the right to self-government continues to exist for Canadian natives.

Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty

Author: Bruce A. Clark

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780773509467

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Thirteen essays explore some 500 years of literacy campaigns in vastly different societies: Reformation Germany, early modern Sweden and Scotland, 19th century US, 19th-20th century Russia and the Soviet Union, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary China, and a variety of Third World countries. The 1763 Royal Proclamation forbade non-natives under British authority to molest or disturb any tribe or tribal territory in British North America. Clark, a lawyer specializing in aboriginal rights, contends that this Proclamation had legislative force and that, since imperial law on this matter has never been repealed, the right to self-government continues to exist for Canadian natives. He also explores the difficulties of aboriginal self-government in the constitution and offers some advice to government and aboriginal negotiators. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty
Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty

Author: Bruce A. Clark

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0773507671

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Thirteen essays explore some 500 years of literacy campaigns in vastly different societies: Reformation Germany, early modern Sweden and Scotland, 19th century US, 19th-20th century Russia and the Soviet Union, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary China, and a variety of Third World countries. The 1763 Royal Proclamation forbade non-natives under British authority to molest or disturb any tribe or tribal territory in British North America. Clark, a lawyer specializing in aboriginal rights, contends that this Proclamation had legislative force and that, since imperial law on this matter has never been repealed, the right to self-government continues to exist for Canadian natives. He also explores the difficulties of aboriginal self-government in the constitution and offers some advice to government and aboriginal negotiators. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Justice in Paradise
Justice in Paradise

Author: Bruce Clark

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1999-10-19

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 077356814X

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A jurisprudential adventure story, Justice in Paradise recounts how a commitment to Native rights and an extraordinary passion for the rule of law have determined the course of Clark's life. From a childhood in an Indian residential school, to the defense of aboriginal rights before the World Court, to being disbarred, Bruce Clark's struggle has led him to a fight against the justice system itself. Justice in Paradise explains the legal and philosophical position behind Clark's opposition to the Indian rights industry. He argues that the North American legal system causes the genocide of those indigenous peoples who embrace traditional religion and identity and accuses those who administer it with chicanery and abandoning the rule of law. Smeared in the media for his beliefs and attacked from the bench - he has been called "a disgrace to the bar" by the Chief Justice of Canada's Supreme Court - his book Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty has been hailed as "the most important and meticulous recent study of native rights in common law" (Canadian Journal of Political Science). Clark turned his back on a comfortable lawyer's life to defend the rule of law and Native rights. He moved with his family to Indian reservations and then to squats while he argued his case before the World Court in Europe. Now, no longer able to practice law, he has been adopted by the Mohicans and together they are fighting for Liberty Island and the Hudson River drainage basin. In his extraordinary memoir, Justice in Paradise, Bruce Clark - hero to some, extremist to others - details the battles of a renegade's life.

Contemporary Native American Political Issues
Contemporary Native American Political Issues

Author: Troy Johnson

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0585189943

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How does one make a clear distinction between issues such as tribal sovereignty, indigenous rights, and law and justice? How do these topics differ, and can they be separated from, issues such as identity, health, and environment? The answer, of course, lies in the interconnectedness of all aspects of Native American life, culture, religion, and politics. This format encourages the consideration of Native politics both in terms of unifying themes and contexts and with regard to local situations, needs, and struggles.

Backcountry Crucibles
Backcountry Crucibles

Author: Jean R. Soderlund

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780934223805

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American historians have emphasized major cities as cultural and economic centers. This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life beyond those cities. The Lehigh Valley is a place where integral events occurred, but is also an example of regional growth outside large cities. Its unique location, close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel, yet distant enough to develop its own cultural life, offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries heretofore unexplored in American historical scholarship. This persistence of cultural and economic patterns, including the capacity to change, makes Lehigh Valley history particularly intriguing.

Aboriginal Law, Fourth Edition
Aboriginal Law, Fourth Edition

Author: Thomas Isaac

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1895830656

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Thomas Isaac looks at the broad picture of trends that are developing in the law and the background, highlighting aspects of Canadian law that impact Aboriginal peoples and their relationship with the wider Canadian society. While covering issues such as Aboriginal and treaty rights, constitutional issues, land claims, self-government, provincial and federal roles, the rights of the Métis, and the Indian Act, this book pays particular attention to the Crown’s duty to consult. The Supreme Court of Canada has clearly stated that achieving reconciliation between Aboriginal interests with the needs of Canadian society as a whole lies primarily with governments, which Isaac outlines.

Struggle for the Land
Struggle for the Land

Author: Ward Churchill

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780872864146

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Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.

Indigenous Rights
Indigenous Rights

Author: Anthony J. Connolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1351927914

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Throughout the world, indigenous rights have become increasingly prominent and controversial. The recent adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the latest in a series of significant developments in the recognition of such rights across a range of jurisdictions. The papers in this collection address the most important philosophical and practical issues informing the discussion of indigenous rights over the past decade or so, at both the international and national levels. Its contributing authors comprise some of the most interesting and influential indigenous and non-indigenous thinkers presently writing on the topic.

Treaty Talks in British Columbia
Treaty Talks in British Columbia

Author: Christopher McKee

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2009-09-02

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0774815167

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This updated edition of Treaty Talks in British Columbia traces the origins and development of treaty negotiations in the province and includes a postscript, co-authored with PeterColenbrander, that provides an extensive overview of the treaty process from 2001 to 2009. The authors outline the achievements of and challenges for the treaty process and review some of the most recent jurisprudence affecting Native and non-Native rights. They also reflect on the growing number of initiatives outside the treaty process to achieve reconciliation between First Nations and the Crown and raise questions about the future relationship between these initiatives andtreaty negotiations. Succinct and informative, this book brings clarity to a complex and often contentious issue.