On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
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On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada

On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada

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Michael Asch (Author)  

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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. 1 map
Michael Asch is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a professor (limited term) in the Department of Anthropology and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
  • Contributor: Michael Asch
  • Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN13: 9781442610026
  • Number of Pages: 232
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 340
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Release Date: 2014-02-11
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Michael Asch is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a professor (limited term) in the Department of Anthropology and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

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