Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index.
Summary:
"As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawa:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the route from pre-contact and early contact ways of sharing the land to the establishment of Kahnawa:ke within the French seigneurial system, land use under Kahnawa:ke law, and the colonizing push to impose the Indian Act and private property - little short of an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats. This ... book is connected to larger issues of membership in Indigenous nations, communal versus individual property rights, governance, and inequality."-- Provided by publisher.
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