Introduction

Patrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson, Recognition and Reconciliation in Indigenous-Settler Societies

 

Part I: Reconciling Sovereignties

1. Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Peoples and the Ethos of Legal Pluralism in Canada

2. Mark D. Walters, “Looking for a knot in the bulrush”: Reflections on Law, Sovereignty and Aboriginal Rights

3. Jeremy Webber, We Are Still in the Age of Encounter: Section 35 and a Canada beyond Sovereignty

4. Brian Slattery, The Generative Structure of Aboriginal Rights

 

Part II: Contesting Methodologies

5. P.G. McHugh, A Common Law Biography of Section 35

6. Dale Turner, Indigenous Knowledge and the Reconciliation of Section 35(1)

7. Jean Leclair, Military Historiography, Warriors and Soldiers: The Normative Impact of Epistemological Choices

 

Part III: Constitutional Consultations

8. Dwight Newman, Consultation and Economic Reconciliation

9. Michael J. Bryant, The State of the Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary Relationship: The Case for an Aboriginal Veto

10. Sari Graben & Abbey Sinclair, Administering Consultation at the National Energy Board: Evaluating Tribunal Authority

 

Part IV: Recognition and Reconciliation in Action

11. SÉbastien Grammond, Isabelle Lantagne, & Natacha GagnÉ, Non-Status Indigenous Groups in Canadian Courts: Practical and Legal Difficulties in Seeking Recognition

12. Kirsty Gover, Liberal and Tribal Membership Boundaries: Descent, Consent and Section 35

13. Douglas Sanderson, Overlapping Consensus, Legislative Reform and the Indian Act

14. Courtney Jung, Canada and the Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools: Transitional Justice for Indigenous People in a Non-transitional Society

15. Natalia Loukacheva, Nunavut and Self-Reliance: A Quest of an Arctic Entity in Transition

 

Part V: Comparative Reflections

16. Jacinta Ruru, Constitutional Indigenous Treaty Jurisprudence in Aotearoa New Zealand

17. Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, Constitutional reform in Australia: Recognition of Indigenous Australians and Reconciliation

18. John Borrows, Legislation and Indigenous Self-Determination in Canada and the United States

 

Afterword

Michael Ignatieff, A Jurisprudence of Jurisdictions

“Finding a way to live together is not about tinkering with this or that Aboriginal policy or about expanding this or that feature of constitutional law. It’s an opportunity to reimagine our common future as a people ... The issues at stake in section 35 therefore go beyond any purely intellectual exercise. They challenge our definition of what it is to be Canadian; they are absolutely central to the economic and political future of our country.”

"Finding a way to live together is not about tinkering with this or that Aboriginal policy or about expanding this or that feature of constitutional law. It's an opportunity to reimagine our common future as a people ... The issues at stake in section 35 therefore go beyond any purely intellectual exercise. They challenge our definition of what it is to be Canadian; they are absolutely central to the economic and political future of our country." -- Michael Ignatieff, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Politics, the Press, and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Professors Macklem and Sanderson present a timely collection of essays that greatly illuminate thinking about the place of Aboriginal peoples in Canada's social and legal architecture. This book is an important reference for anyone interested in how a modern democracy might come to terms with the present-day legacies of its colonial past." -- S. James Anaya, Regents' Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona