Indigenous Peoples

Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114789Author N. Bruce DuthuFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238g

Telling the crucial and under-studied story of the U.S. legal doctrines that underpin the dispossession and domination of Indigenous peoples, this book enhances global Indigenous movements for self-determination. In this wide-ranging historical study...

On the twelfth floor of an undistinguished-looking high-rise, a tribunal adjudicates the human rights of Indigenous individuals. Why isn’t the process working? Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of...

The indigenous Bedouin Arab population in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel has experienced a history of displacement, intense political conflict, and cultural disruption, along with recent rapid modernization, forced urbanization, and migration. This...

Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure examines complex Indian nations' tribal justice systems, analyzing tribal statutory law, tribal case law, and the cultural values of Native peoples. Using tribal court opinions and tribal codes, it reveals how tribal...

The desire to erase the religions of Indigenous Peoples is an ideological fixture of the colonial project that marked the first century of Canada's nationhood. While the ban on certain Indigenous religious practices was lifted after the Second World War,...

For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove...

On the twelfth floor of an undistinguished-looking high-rise, a tribunal adjudicates the human rights of Indigenous individuals. Why isn’t the process working? Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of...

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems...

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778290039Author Vicki ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Athabasca University PressPublisher Athabasca University Press

The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990735264Author Lorene ShybaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint DurvilePublisher Durvile

Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This book brings together distinguished scholars who show that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714205Author Bruce McIvorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

"For hundreds of years, we have struggled to survive amid a patrilineal system of government. We will not continue to allow government policy to manage our affairs, decide who is Aboriginal or not based on blood quantum ..." - Chief Candice...

In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phrase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For Pollock and Maitland, this was an...

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book...

Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States.About the...

The Land Is Our History tells the story of indigenous legal activism at a critical political and cultural juncture in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the late 1960s, indigenous activists protested assimilation policies and the usurpation of their...

In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime.This occurred, not at the moment of settlement...

Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine. The authors place this dispute in historical,...

The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922059093Author Virginia MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 460g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733280518Author Timothy Noble Drew AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Califa Media PublishingPublisher Califa Media PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955645263Author Stanley VastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Stanley VastPublisher Stanley VastWeight(grams) 152g

This book provides a definitive account of the creation and rise of the international Indigenous Peoples’ movement.In the late 1970s, motivated by their dire situation and local struggles, and inspired by worldwide movements for social justice and...

Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure examines complex Indian nations' tribal justice systems, analyzing tribal statutory law, tribal case law, and the cultural values of Native peoples. Using tribal court opinions and tribal codes, it reveals how tribal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955645478Author Stanley VastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Stanley VastPublisher Stanley VastWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955645058Author Stanley VastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Stanley VastPublisher Stanley VastWeight(grams) 152g

In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Metis and non-status Indians were "Indians" under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Metis relationships with the...

In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Metis and non-status Indians were 'Indians' under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Metis relationships with the federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998694771Author Tamara StarblanketFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In the landmark decision of Guerin v. the Queen in 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that Canada has a duty to act in the best interests of Aboriginal peoples. This book tells the story of the federal government's breach of that duty toward the...

The author begins by defining Aboriginal and treaty rights, and discusses limits on the government's ability to infringe them, as well as the government's fiduciary responsibility to Aboriginal peoples. He then discusses the principles for determining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989223Author Joseph F. C. DiMentoFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983283Author Joseph F. C. DiMentoFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

This book will find an audience among students taking both introductory and specialist courses in Aboriginal law, Indigenous studies, or the social sciences; lawyers with an interest in Aboriginal law; and journalists, government officials, business...

This book is vital reading for everyone involved in Aboriginal law or title, for legal historians and scholars, and for anyone interested in Indigenous rights in Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780774861052Author Kent McNeilFormat HardbackPage Count...