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| Genre/Form: | Claims |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Melvin H. Our home or native land? Victoria, B.C. : Crown Western, ©1995 (OCoLC)652072068 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Melvin H Smith |
| ISBN: | 1550563645 9781550563641 |
| OCLC Number: | 33830186 |
| Description: | vi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Preface -- 1. A vision short-lived -- 2. Sacrificing our Northern inheritance -- 3. Carving up the Yukon -- 4. Land claims in British Columbia -- 5. "Topping up" existing treaties and other Largesse -- 6. The mother of all trials -- 7. The quest for Native sovereignty -- 8. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- 9. The Aboriginal Commerical Fishery in B.C. -- 10. Fiscal folly -- 11. Considering the reasons for failure -- 12. New directions -- Appendix: Defining the terms -- Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | Melvin H. Smith ; [foreword by Rafe Mair]. |
Abstract:
Argues against the costs to taxpayers of land claim settlements, and the settling of large tracts of lands to minorities in historical land claims.
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