Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples

Louis A. Knafla is a professor emeritus of the Department of History and director of socio-legal studies at the University of Calgary. Haijo Westra is a professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Calgary.

Contributors: Brian Ballantyne, Paul L.A.H. Chartrand, Peter W. Hutchins, Kenichi Matsui, Kent McNeil, Nicolas Peterson, Arthur Ray, Bruce Rigsby, Jacinta Ruru, and David Yarrow

Alan Cairns:
The book is a major contribution to the widespread controversies over how the contemporary state and minority peoples/nations within it can come to an enduring rapprochement…the editors and contributors have produced a volume that should be on the bookshelf of every serious scholar studying Aboriginal issues.

David V. Williams, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland:
This book makes a significant original contribution to its field … If Commonwealth countries like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand cannot find better forms of accommodation between indigenous peoples and governments, then they will remain badly flawed democracies.

Benjamin J. Richardson, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University:
This book enriches the literature, which is not greatly endowed with comparative scholarship on indigenous rights, and it will help scholars, policy makers, students, and indigenous groups to better appreciate both historical and recent legal developments in common law jurisdictions.