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Review

To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

By Alan Hanna

Cover Image: To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Review

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

By Daniel L. Boxberger

Cover Image: Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

Review

Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada’s and America’s Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

By Ashley Kyne

BC Studies no. 216 Winter 2022/23 | p. 155-156

Cover Image: Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada’s and America’s Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

review essay

Stories of Fish and People: Oral Tradition and the Environmental Crisis

By Michael Marker

BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | p. 79-85

article

The Living Nature of a Modern Treaty: Preparing for the Maa-nulth Treaty’s First Periodic Review

By Onyx (Vanessa) Sloan Morgan, ReAnne Kennedy, Heather Castleden, and Huu-ay-aht First Nations

aboriginal rights

aboriginal self government

Maa-nulth

treaties

BC Studies no. 216 Winter 2022/23 | p. 41-71

New Media / Exhibition Review

RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action

By Lydia Toorenburgh

colonialism

Delgamuukw v. BC

Indigenous

Indigenous rights

land claims

law

treaties

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | p. 128-129

Cover Image: RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action

Review

Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

By Joshua Nichols

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | p. 150-151

Cover Image: Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

Review

A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada

By Kenneth Favrholdt

BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | p. 136-138

Cover Image: A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada

Review

Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923

By Carole Blackburn

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | p. 136-137

Cover Image: Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923

Review

By Law or In Justice

By David Milward

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | p. 218-219

Cover Image: By Law or In Justice

Review

Reconsidering Confederation: Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

By Alex Gagne

BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | p. 160-161

Cover Image: Reconsidering Confederation: Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

article

Fish, Politics and Treaty Rights: Who Protects Salmon Resources in Washington State?

By Charles F. Broches

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

fishing industry

fishing industry

treaties

treaties

treaties

United States

BC Studies no. 57 Spring 1983 | p. 86-98

Review

The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties

By Tyler McCreary

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | p. 180-2

Review

This is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

By Gillian Crowther

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | p. 164-167

article

Has Constitutionalizing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Made a Difference?

By Kent McNeil

aboriginal rights

aboriginal rights

aboriginal rights

Constitution Express

Constitution of Canada

law

treaties

treaties

treaties

BC Studies no. 212 Winter 2021/22 | p. 137-164

Review

Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice

By Erika Bland

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 158-159

Review

Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

By Neil Vallance

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | p. 156-158

Review

The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller

By Brian Thom

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | p. 158-159

Review

Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013

By Geoffrey Carr

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | p. 180-181

article

Re-living the present: Title, treaties, and the trickster in British Columbia

By John Borrows

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

land claims

land claims

land claims

treaties

treaties

treaties

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | p. 99-108

article

Comments on the draft Nisga’a Treaty

By Gordon Gibson

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

land claims

land claims

land claims

treaties

treaties

treaties

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | p. 55-72

article

Aboriginal self-government and the foundations of Canadian nationhood

By Samuel V. Laselva

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

confederation

land claims

land claims

land claims

treaties

treaties

treaties

United States

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | p. 41-54

article

On the Nisga’a Treaty

By Charles Taylor

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

aboriginal self government

assimilation

land claims

land claims

land claims

treaties

treaties

treaties

BC Studies no. 120 Winter 1998 | p. 37-40

article

Treaty 8: A British Columbian Anomaly

By Arthur J. Ray

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

treaties

treaties

treaties

BC Studies no. 123 Autumn 1999 | p. 5-58

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