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Beyond the Indian Act : restoring Aboriginal property rights / Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, Andre Le Dressay.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Flanagan, Thomas, 1944-
Contributor:
Le Dressay, André, 1964-
Alcantara, Christopher, 1978-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indian title--Canada.
Indian title.
Indians of North America--Land tenure--Canada.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Answers the question: Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?
Contents:
Property rights in general
The panorama of Indian property rights
A failed experiment : the Dawes Act
The legal framework of the Indian Act
Customary land rights on Canadian Indian reserves
Certificates of possession and leases : the Indian Act individual property regimes
The First Nations Land Management Act
Why markets fail on First Nations lands
Escaping the Indian Act
Back to the future: restoring First Nations property-rights systems.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-213) and index.
ISBN:
9780773581845
0773581847
9780773581838
0773581839
OCLC:
770697781

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