Compact, Contract, Covenant

Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada

von J R Miller

448 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation of more than four centuries of treaty-making. The first historical account of treaty-making in Canada, Miller untangles the complicated threads of treaties, pacts, and arrangements with the Hudson's Bay Company and the Crown, as well as modern treaties to provide a remarkably clear and comprehensive overview of this little-understood and vitally important relationship. Covering everything from pre-contact Aboriginal treaties to contemporary agreements in Nunavut and recent treaties negotiated under the British Columbia Treaty Process, Miller emphasizes both Native and non-Native motivations in negotiating, the impact of treaties on the peoples involved, and the lessons that are relevant to Native-newcomer relations today. Accessible and informative, Compact, Contract, Covenant is a much-needed history of the evolution of treaty-making and will be required reading for decades to come.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780802095152
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2009
• Größe: 224 x 153 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press