β Scribed by Tom Flanagan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care. Underpinning these privileges is what Tom Flanagan describes as "aboriginal orthodoxy" - the belief that prior residence in North America is an entitlement to special treatment.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1 The Aboriginal Orthodoxy
2 We Were Here First
3 What Ever Happened to Civilization?
4 The Fiction of Aboriginal Sovereignty
5 Bands, Tribes, or Nations?
6 The Inherent Problems of Aboriginal Self-Government
7 In Search of Property
8 Treaties, Agreements, and Land Surrenders
9 Making a Living
10 This Octagon Is a Stop Sign
11 Update 2008
Notes
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