The land is our history : indigeneity, law, and the settler state

The land is our history : indigeneity, law, and the settler state / Miranda Johnson.

"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 lands as a new mining boom took off, rad...

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Main Author: Johnson, Miranda C. L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada.
Māori (New Zealand people) > Legal status, laws, etc.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc.
Māori (New Zealand people)
Canada
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A fragile truce
  • Citizens plus : new indigenous activism in Australia and Canada
  • Australia's first, first people
  • Frontier justice in Canada's north
  • Commissions of inquiry and the idea of a new social contract
  • Making a "partnership between races" : Maori activism and the Treaty of Waitangi
  • The Pacific way
  • Epilogue: Truce undone.

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