Beyond the Indian Act
Subtitle: restoring Aboriginal property rights
By: Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, André Le Dressay
Contributors: Le Dressay, André, 1964-; Alcantara, Christopher, 1978-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780773536869
Subjects: Aboriginal title; Land tenure; Indians of North America; Legal status, laws; Native peoples
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Property rights in general; title: The panorama of Indian property rights; title: A failed experiment : the Dawes Act; title: The legal framework of the Indian Act; title: Customary land rights on Canadian Indian reserves; title: Certificates of possession and leases : the Indian Act individual property regimes; title: The First Nations Land Management Act; title: Why markets fail on First Nations lands; title: Escaping the Indian Act; title: Back to the future: restoring First Nations property-rights systems.