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Asch, Michael

 
9781442610026: On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1442610026 ISBN 13 : 9781442610026
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada's assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country's vast territory? Why should Canada's original inhabitants have to ask for rights to what was their land when non-Aboriginal people first arrived? The question lurks behind every court judgment on Indigenous rights, every demand that treaty obligations be fulfilled, and every land-claims negotiation.Addressing these questions has occupied anthropologist Michael Asch for nearly thirty years. In On Being Here to Stay, Asch retells the story of Canada with a focus on the relationship between First Nations and settlers.Asch proposes a way forward based on respecting the "spirit and intent" of treaties negotiated at the time of Confederation, through which, he argues, First Nations and settlers can establish an ethical way for both communities to be here to stay.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Asch is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a professor (limited term) in the Department of Anthropology and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1442610026
ISBN 13 
9781442610026
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
232
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