On December 11, 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in the historical aboriginal title action known a Delgamuukw versus The Queen. The decision vindicated the fifty?two Gitkan and We?suwe?en chiefs named as the plaintiffs in the court case, and completely rewrites the rules for resolving Native title in Canada.
Epic battles with bear spirits in the streets of an ancient mythical city, logging?road showdowns deep in the Skeena Mountains, and forays into courtrooms and boardrooms in Vancouver punctuate Glavin?s eminently readable account of this land claims case.
This new edition reprints the complete text of the original 1990 edition, and adds a new chapter that takes up the narrative from the point when the case was still before the BC Supreme Court, follows the tumultuous events from Oka to the establishment of the BC Treaty Commission, examines the landscape that lies behind the incoherence and hysteria surrounding aboriginal rights in British Columbia, and looks ahead to a post?Delgamuukw Canada.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-232)
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 346.71104/32/089972
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 0921586647 9781459311930
- LCCN
- E99.K55
- LCCN Item number
- G6 1998eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vi, 232 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603020 (OCoLC)605723652 (CaOOCEL)409277
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 7
- ONE: Delgamuukw versus The Queen 10
- TWO: The War On the Land 38
- THREE: The Ghosts Visit With Mas Gak 57
- FOUR: In the Streets of an Ancient City 71
- FIVE: Elsie Morrison's Death Feast 89
- SIX: Behind Enemy Lines 106
- SEVEN: When Goats Feasted Men 121
- EIGHT: Victoria Comes to the Suskwa 141
- NINE: The ’Watsx Comes to the Suskwa 160
- TEN: The Bluejay Alights at Gitwangak 183
- ELEVEN: The Coming Fall of Dimlahamid 200
- EPILOGUE: The Fall of Dimlahamid 205
- APPENDIX: Excerpts from Delgamuukw v. the Queen 227
- Bibliography 233
