Aboriginal rights claims and the making and remaking of history

Summary: "In Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History, Arthur Ray examines how claims-oriented research is often fitted to the existing frames of Indigenous rights law and claims legislation and, as a result, has influenced the development of these laws and legislation. Through a comparative study encompassing the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, Ray also explores the ways in which various procedures and settings for claims adjudication have influenced and changed the use of historical evidence, made space for indigenous voices, stimulated scholarly debates about the cultural and historical experiences of indigenous peoples at the time of initial European contact and afterward, and have provoked reactions from politicians and scholars." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780773547438
ISBN: 9780773547421
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ISBN: 9780773599109
ISBN: 9780773599003
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Montreal ; McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-318) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Taking Indigenous Peoples' Lands -- 2. United States Indian Claims Commission -- 3. Litigating and Negotiating Native Title and Treaty Rights in Canada -- 4. Anthropologists, Historians, and the Title Claims of Aborigines in Australia -- 5. Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History -- 6. Redressing Race-Based Dispossessions in South Africa -- 7. Metis in Court: Problems of Discrimination, Identity, and Community -- 8. Courts, Commissions, and Tribunals as Forums for Interpreting and Making History.