Aboriginal societies and the common law : a history of sovereignty, status, and self-determination / by P. G. McHugh.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Indigenous peoples -- Australia.

Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America -- Canada -- Legal status, laws, etc.

1. Introduction Sovereignty

2. The juridical status of non-Christian polities (to the end of the eighteenth century)

3. Aboriginal sovereignty and status in the 'empire(s) of uniformity'

4. A history of aboriginal status-the legal recognition of the individual and the group in the 'apparent twilight'

Intermezzo

5. Aboriginal societies and international law: a history of sovereignty, status and land

Self-determination

6. An overview of the era of aboriginal self-determination: from rights-recognition to rights-integration and -management

7. The 'era of recognition' during the 1970s and '80s-foundations for a modern jurisprudence

8. Moving beyond recognition: aboriginal governance in the turbulent 1990s

9. Living together less contentiously-the jurisprudence of reconciliation in the 1990s.

Includes bibliography and index.

Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

019825248X

ix, 661 p.