In-depth analysis of the 130-year history of the Aboriginal title issue in British Columbia, including the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-403)
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 346.71104/32
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn-bc
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- 9781459313040 0889223157
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- KEB529.5.L3
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- C85 1998eb
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- 1 electronic text (406 p. : 1 map)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00209644 (OCoLC)426460854 (CaOOCEL)409424
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Generalized Map of British Columbia 13
- PART I: JUSTITIA OMNIBUS (JUSTICE FOR ALL) 14
- Chapter 1: How Did the Crown Acquire Title? 16
- The Long and Short of It 16
- Human Being, Citizen, Anthropologist 18
- Chapter 2: In Search of Reason 27
- The Law in its Majesty 27
- Late One Night at the Legion 30
- PART II: TERRA NULLIUS (UNOCCUPIED, EMPTY LAND) 36
- Chapter 3: Cultures Similar and Different 38
- Creating Race in the Interests of Empire 38
- Mutiny and Desertion as Common Sense 43
- Chapter 4: Beginning at the Beginning 48
- Aboriginal Peoples Were Here 48
- Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive 49
- Eclecticism 51
- Imperialist Competitions in Terra Nullius 52
- Imperialist Nostalgia in Terra Nullius 53
- Enough and As Good 54
- Nation to Nation. Words to Paper 55
- PART III: TERRA INCOGNITA (UNKNOWN LAND) 60
- Chapter 5: The Great Chain of Precedent 62
- Honour Among Thieves. South of the Border 62
- Honour Among Thieves. North of the Border 65
- Honour Among Thieves. In Africa 68
- Chapter 6: White Papers and Legal Tests: the 1970’s 73
- Law, Power and Resistance 73
- Logic, Legal Hysteria and Rifle Shots on Vancouver Island 74
- Civilization and the Whimsical Destruction of Property 79
- From Law to Politics and Back Again 84
- The Honour of the Crown Below Par 85
- Chapter 7: Conflicts and Constitutions: The 1980s 91
- The Master’s Tools: The Comprehensive Claims Policy 91
- Title on the Baker Lake Tundra: Lower Peaks than Mexico 93
- The Evolution of the Dedicated White People Band at Bear Island 98
- The Master’s House: The Repatriation of the Constitution 101
- Testing, Testing: From “Use and Occupancy” to “Culture” in the Sparrow Decision 102
- Ping Pong 106
- PART IV: ECCE SIGNUM (BEHOLD THE PROOF) 110
- Chapter 8: Delgamuukw versus The Queen 112
- All the World’s a Stage 112
- Do Aboriginal Peoples Really Exist? 113
- Chapter 9: The Gitksan’s and Wet’suwet’en’s Case 117
- A Native Point of View 117
- Experts in Living Memory 120
- The Ancestors are Watching 125
- Chapter 10: Experts on Behalf of the Plaintiffs 128
- Anthropology: Interpretation and Understanding? 128
- Here Come the Anthros 131
- Law and Masculine Hysteria 135
- Academic Freedom 141
- Chapter 11: The Crown’s Case 151
- The Political Economy of Litigation 151
- Anthropology: The Science of “Man”? 153
- Chapter 12: Experts on Behalf of the Defendants 156
- Her Majesty’s Loyal Anthropologist 156
- Malignant Mythologies 164
- Hegemonic Moments 177
- Chapter 13: Jewels in the Crown 184
- Temporal Purgatory: The Protohistoric Period 184
- Who Created Private Property? 188
- The Magic of Commodity Fetishism 199
- Chapter 14: From Fur Trading Frontier to White Man’s Province 205
- Believing What You See. Seeing What You Believe 205
- On the One Hand. And On the Other… 210
- Chapter 15: Old Questions. New Century 215
- The First Definite Hint 215
- The Era of Permanent Penetration 221
- Resistance versus Assimilation 227
- PART V: DIES IRAE (JUDGMENT DAY) 234
- Chapter 16: Reasons for Judgment 236
- Nasty, British (Columbian) and Long 236
- The Vast Emptiness 237
- Might Makes Right 238
- No Writing, Horses or Wheeled Wagons 246
- Finders Keepers 251
- Chapter 17: Reasons in the Public Eye 255
- Judgment Day 255
- Music is Lost on Me. I Have a Tin Ear 258
- Delgamuukw and the People Without Culture 261
- Insult and Injury 263
- Is There Intelligent Life in the Galaxy? 264
- PART VI: TABULA RASA (BLANK PAGE) 268
- Chapter 18: Judging the Experts 270
- Experts v. Advocates 270
- Ethics v. License 273
- Revision v. Reversal 274
- Politics v. Poetics 276
- Chiefs v. Commoners 277
- Chapter 19: How Do You Know Whose Story is True? 282
- Sense v. Nonsense 282
- Fact v. Fiction 285
- Truth v. Lies 290
- PART VII: AD ARBITRIUM (AT WILL) 296
- Chapter 20: Moonlighting as an Anthropologist and an Historian 298
- Drive-by Ethnography 298
- Civilization by Tautology 300
- Reasons to Travel 302
- Legal Rights and Social Wrongs 306
- Communicating Deeds and Legislating Greed 310
- Driven to Drink 312
- Infantile Disorders 314
- Camp Potlatch 316
- The Battle of Britain 319
- PART VIII: AD INFINITUM (GOING ON FOREVER, INTO INFINITY) 324
- Chapter 21: Delgamuukw at the British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1993 326
- We Own Therefore We Are 326
- We Buy Therefore We Are 329
- Chapter 22: The British Columbia Treaty Process and the Supreme Court of Canada, 1996 336
- From Negotiation to Litigation to Negotiation to Litigation to 336
- Appealing Culture 337
- PART IX: IN FUTURO (IN THE FUTURE) 344
- Chapter 23: The Past In the Present, In the Future 346
- Just Another Day in Lotus Land 346
- Justice. Then Peace 346
- Chapter 24: Back to the Future 355
- Colouring Outside the Lines 355
- Postscript: December 11, 1997 361
- The Dawn of a New Day? 361
- Patience is a Virtue 364
- The Way Forward 368
- The Irony of Ironies 370
- Tomorrow Today 371
- Bibliography 373
- Table of Cases 406
- Acknowledgements 408
