Compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Canadian and US Native American policy. This book examines the evolution of property rights, from wildlife in pre-Columbian times and the potential for using property rights to resolve contemporary fish and wildlife issues, to the importance of...

Thomas Jefferson's agrarian vision and the changing nature of property -- The dialectics of government land policies (1785-1862) -- The dialectics of government land policies on arid land -- Multidimensional land -- Wilderness