Creating Indigenous Property

Power, Rights, and Relationships

Val Napoleon, Sari Graben, Angela Cameron

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University of Toronto Press
21 October 2020

Labour economics; Employment & unemployment; Health economics; Welfare economics; Economic systems & structures

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project.

Creating Indigenous Property identifies how contemporary Indigenous conceptions of property are rooted in and informed by their societally specific norms, meanings, and ethics. Through detailed analysis, the authors illustrate that unexamined and unresolved contradictions between the historic and the present have created powerful competing versions of Indigenous law, legal authorities, and practices that reverberate through Indigenous communities. They have identified the contradictions and conflicts within Indigenous communities about relationships to land and non-human life forms, about responsibilities to one another, about environmental decisions, and about wealth distribution. Creating Indigenous Property contributes to identifying the way that Indigenous discourses, processes, and institutions can empower the use of Indigenous law.

The book explores different questions generated by these dynamics, including: Where is the public/private divide in Indigenous and Canadian law, and why should it matter? How do land and property shape local economies? Whose voices are heard in debates over property and why are certain voices missing? How does gender matter to the conceptualization of property and the Indigenous legal imagination? What is the role and promise of Indigenous law in negotiating new relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canada? In grappling with these questions, readers will join the authors in exploring the conditions under which Canadian and Indigenous legal orders can productively co-exist.

By: Val Napoleon, Sari Graben, Angela Cameron
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781487505455
ISBN 10: 1487505450
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 21 October 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Val Napoleon is a professor, the director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, and the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Sari Graben is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law & Business in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. Angela Cameron is the Shirley Greenberg Chair and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.

Reviews for Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships

Ultimately, with thorough examinations of Canadian legal instruments affecting Indigenous land and property rights, and lessons from the transnational context, Creating Indigenous Property examines ways to facilitate the debate on Indigenous land rights, promoting respect for Indigenous peoples diverse views and laws and exploring their compatibilization with Western legal mechanisms and systems. It is a very valuable collection for advocates of Indigenous land rights, policymakers, and scholars, in Canada and elsewhere. -- Ayla do Vale Alves * <em>American Society of International Law</em> * I would strongly recommend this collection as an important vehicle for developing a better understanding of how the 'capitalist-exploitation logic' informs our relationships with Indigenous Peoples in this country. -- F. Tim Knight, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University * <em>Canadian Law Library Review</em> *