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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Aboriginal rights"”.
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The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law
… which the common law of England recognised the rights embodied in the Treaty of Waitangi upon the Crown's assumption of the territorial sovereignty over New Zealand. Since the principles of the common law developed in an organic manner through the history of British relations with non-Christian …
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Can forest harvesting and the practice of Aboriginal rights exist compatibly on the landscape?
… changes, the mountain pine beetle epidemic and Aboriginal law developments over the past 30 years have magnified land management challenges in the Cariboo Region. Governments follow a court-developed consultation-engagement framework with First Nations when contemplating natural resource …
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The Sound of Silence: First Nations and British Columbia Emergency Management
… consider Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 (s. 35) Aboriginal rights in light of the lack of statutorily prescribed inclusion of First Nations in off-reserve emergency management, particularly at the planning, mitigation and recovery phases concluding that the jurisprudence to date (including the …
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Indigenous Blockades and the Power to Speak the Law: From Settler Colonialism to Indigenous Resurgence
… reading of a selection of leading scholarship on Aboriginal rights jurisprudence to identify whether the Canadian courts are reproducing elements of settler colonialism in their decisions. The second half of this work draws on the literature of Indigenous resurgence, blockades, jurisdiction and …
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Transfer of jurisdiction for education: A paradox in regard to the constitutional entrenchment of Indian rights to education and the existing treaty No. 3 rights to education.
… in the report of the Royal commission on Aboriginal People and elsewhere. From this archaic beginning the government has recently taken the initiative to transfer jurisdiction for education to Treaty No. 3 area Indian bands. This initiative is examined in this thesis. The examination …
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Indigenous Self-Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territorries (NWT), Canada: Time, Reality and Social Suffering
… past 30 years, Canada has attempted to reconcile Aboriginal rights and title with Canadian sovereignty; including rights of political self determination, or "self government". I examine this process critically in this dissertation, exploring how temporal characterizations of Indigenous peoples, …
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Making space for reconciliation in Canada's planning system
… likely effects on environmental oversight and Aboriginal rights. In Haida Gwaii, a series of islands off of the north coast of British Columbia (BC) around which the proposed tanker traffic would navigate, a process of reconciliation is in its early stages. The forestry sector is now subject to …
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Lifeworlds of Administrative Law
Administrative law is largely missing in conversations about the legal context of ‘reconciliation’ in Canada. To the extent that those conversations consider administrative law, the discussion tends to revolve around the relationship between federal courts and self-governing nations. While this is …
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Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia
… this enquiry came from two experiences with an Aboriginal Other, which prompted the initial research questions: “Why does the existence of an Aboriginal Other threaten a white sense of belonging?” and; “What are the mechanisms and purposes of aggression towards, or exclusion of, that which …