Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand aims to provide a contemporary and contextual survey and analysis of the legal and political interaction between the British settler, states of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the indigenous First Nation peoples they dispossessed.The text consists of a collection of commissioned essays, each focusing on a particular aspect of the relationship between the settler state and indigenous peoples. The contributors pose...
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Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand aims to provide a contemporary and contextual survey and analysis of the legal and political interaction between the British settler, states of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the indigenous First Nation peoples they dispossessed.The text consists of a collection of commissioned essays, each focusing on a particular aspect of the relationship between the settler state and indigenous peoples. The contributors pose fundamental questions about the role of imposed legal and political institutions, both in continuing a process of colonial domination and in contributing to the progressive emancipation of indigenous peoples. The text includes sections on: indigenous peoples' perspectives on sovereignty, self-determination, and co-existence; a historical overview of settlement; comparative political jurisprudence and contemporary ethno-politics; the contemporary social impact of colonization; the administration of indigenous affairs; and constitutionalizing indigenous rights.