From Recognition to Reconciliation
Subtitle: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781442628854
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, legal status, laws, etc.; Indigenous peoples, canada; Constitutional law, canada
Description: "More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed 'the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.' Hailed at the time as a watershed moment in the legal and political relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler societies in Canada, the constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal and treaty rights has proven to be only the beginning of the long and complicated process of giving meaning to that constitutional recognition. [In this book, scholars] reflect on the continuing transformation of the constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The book features essays on themes such as the role of sovereignty in constitutional jurisprudence, the diversity of methodologies at play in these legal and political questions, and connections between the Canadian constitutional experience and developments elsewhere in the world."--