On being here to stay : treaties and Aboriginal rights in Canada

Summary: Annotation 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442685246 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1442685247 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781442640283
ISBN: 1442640286
ISBN: 9781442610026
ISBN: 1442610026
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Single-User. Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. Multi-User. CatMonthString:april.15
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.