Table of Contents

Introduction

1 We Have Always Made Laws: Defending the Right to Self-Government

2 Aboriginal Title, Fee Simple, and Dead Capital: Property in Translation

3 Treaty Citizenship: Negotiating beyond Inclusion

4 The Treaty Relationship: Reconciliation and Its Discontents

Conclusion

Notes; References; Index

Promotional Information

Beyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisg̱a’a treaty.

About the Author

Carole Blackburn is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Harvest of Souls: Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632–1650. She has been researching the Nisg̱a'a Final Agreement since 1999, conducting interviews and engaging in participant observation with treaty negotiators, politicians, bureaucrats, Nisg̱a'a citizens, government workers, and lawyers for the province, the federal government, and the Nisg̱a'a.

Reviews

...Beyond Rights provides a compelling account for why, despite their flaws, the modern treaties are important to the future of reconcilitation in Canada and ought to have the attention of all Canadians. - Joshua Nichols, McGill University (BC Studies)