Some Aboriginal people see domestic Canadian law as alien and oppressive. This paper explores one source of this perception. By examining the layers of theory and world-view upon which the law is based, it finds conflict with the sensibilities of Aboriginal peoples. The author argues that a...

This paper reviews the 1997 and 1999 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) regarding Aboriginal peoples’ access to resources: Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, which set out basic principles surrounding Aboriginal title, and R. v. and Marshall, which dealt with access to resources in...

Citizenship is a key factor in the development of national identity. Any system for establishing and defining citizenship is meaningless as a tool for the creation of such an identity, however, without control of the mechanisms by which this system is designed and implemented. In this paper I...

"The discussion of Aboriginal governance is a highly contested site which brings together history, political theory (both Indigenous and Western), and legal theory, as well as culture, identity and notions of nationhood and citizenship. Gordon Christie has assembled a set of articles from a...