The Marshall decision and native rights /

In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontatio...

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Main Author: Coates, Kenneth, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780773568778
0773568778
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Of Eels, Judges, and lobsters: the Marshall challenge and the Supreme Court decision
  • Paying the price for history: Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Colonists from treaties to irrelevance
  • Mi'kmaq and Maliseet frustrations: social crises and government responses
  • prelude to marshall: aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada
  • Thomas Peter Paul and the Mi'kmaq logging dispute
  • The Marshall crisis and East Coast confrontations
  • Postlude to Marshall: Joshua Bernard, Lobster licences, and the refinement of Mi'kmaq rights
  • What does it mean? The Marshall decision, East coast fisheries, and aboriginal rights
  • Appendices. A. Maritime First Nations communities: population
  • B. Lobster quotas and Mikmaq fishing rights
  • C. Rex v. Syliboy, Nova Scotia County Court, 10 September 1928
  • D. Regina v. Donald Marshall Jr., Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, 26 March 1997
  • Regina v. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench, 28 October 1997
  • F. Regina V. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Appeal, 22 April 1998
  • G. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada, 17 September 1999
  • H. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada Motion for rehearing and stay, 17 November 1999.