Aboriginal Law Handbook
This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition.
This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.
This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law.
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples summarized these years of attempted constitutional reform, stating that “government policies, attempts at legislative reform, and attempts at constitutional reform have failed.
This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people’s stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.
How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins?
Therefore this book develops a litigation Toolkit which can be used in such disputes and includes legal and quasi legal instruments from the following frameworks, cultural property, cultural heritage, cultural rights, collective heritage, ...
"Essentials of Canadian Aboriginal Law is the print version of the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest title. The book discusses the current Canadian law about Indigenous peoples living in Canada.
See also Jenkin, Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, 83–86; David Sampson, Strangers in a Strange Land: The 1868 Aborigines and other Indigenous Performers in Mid-Victorian Britain (Ph.D. thesis, University of Technology Sydney, 2000): 141, ...