Canada: The Crown In A Multicultural Age: The Changing Epistemology Of (Post)colonial Sovereignty

Canada: The Crown In A Multicultural Age: The Changing Epistemology Of (Post)colonial Sovereignty Mariana Valverde, 2012 In Canada as in other (post)colonial settings, courts have been facing the challenging task of redefining both substantive aboriginal legal rights and evidentiary rules that now look ethnocentric. Recent litigation has shown that while rights claims made by indigenous collectives are difficult to make and sustain in court, the newly revived doctrine of the Crown’s...

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