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A Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice chronicles Peter
Kulchyski's experiences with the Begade Shuhtagot'ine, a small
community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita
(formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of
Canada's Northwest Territories. Despite their formal objections and
boycott of the agreement, the band and their lands were included in
the Sahtu treaty, a modern comprehensive land claims agreement
negotiated between the Government of Canada and the Sahtu Tribal
Council, representing Dene and Metis peoples of the region. While
both Treaty Eleven (1921) and the Sahtu Treaty (1994) purport to
extinguish Begade Shuhtagot'ine Aboriginal title, oral history and
documented attempts to exclude themselves from treaty strongly
challenge the validity of that extinguishment. Structured as a
series of briefs to an inquiry into the Begade Shutagot'ine's
claim, this manuscript documents the negotiation and implementation
of the Sahtu treaty and amasses evidence of historical and
continued presence and land use to make eminently clear that the
Begade Shuhtagot'ine are the continued owners of the land by law:
they have not extinguished title to their traditional territories;
they continue to exercise their customs, practices, and traditions
on those territories; and they have a fundamental right to be
consulted on, and refuse or be compensated for, development
projects on those territories. Kulchyski bears eloquent witness to
the Begade Shuhtagot'ine people's two-decade struggle for land
rights, which have been blatantly ignored by federal and
territorial authorities for too long.
An epochal tragedy is taking place in our time with the
totalitarian destruction of Aboriginal cultures. In the face of
overwhelming odds, Aboriginal communities have shown remarkable
resources for creative resistance. In the process, they are
challenging the concept of democracy as it is practised in Canada.
In Like the Sound of a Drum, Peter Kulchyski brings new primary
research and contemporary political theory to the study of
Aboriginal politics in Denendeh and Nunavut. Part ethnography, part
theory, part narrative, Kulchyski uses first-hand interviews and
stories from the Dene communities of Fort Simpson and Fort Good
Hope in the Northwest Territories and the Inuit community of
Pangnirtung (Panniqtuuq), Nunavut, to draw out the strengths of
local cultures and their strategies for resistance to the imposed
political policies and structures of the State.
Kiumajut [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900-70
examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular
focus on two interrelated issues. The first is how a deeply flawed
set of scientific practices for counting animal populations led
policymakers to develop policies and laws intended to curtail the
activities of Inuit hunters. Animal management informed by this
knowledge became a justification for attempts to educate and,
ultimately, to regulate Inuit hunters. The second issue is Inuit
responses to the emerging regime of government intervention. The
authors look closely at resulting court cases and rulings, as well
as Inuit petitions. The activities of the first Inuit community
council are also examined in exploring how Inuit began to "talk
back" to the Canadian state.
This is a fascinating collection of eight Canadian Supreme Court
decisions concerning aboriginal rights. The judgements in each case
are presented in their original form and include dissenting
opinions. The cases, which span from 1888 to 1990, demonstrate the
development of the legal value of aboriginal rights in Canada and
shed new light on how recent court decisions were influenced by
those in the past.
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