Defining Aboriginal Title in the 90's: Has the Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?

Authors

Kent McNeil, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow

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Description

The arrival of Europeans in North America had a profound impact on the Aboriginal peoples who had been living here for thousands of years. Virtually everything changed: unfamiliar diseases like smallpox ravished the population; the fur trade and European settlement and resource use decimated the wildlife; new technology such as firearms altered Aboriginal economies and tribal relations; Christian evangelism affected spiritual beliefs and values; European imposition of sovereignty and governmental structures weakened, and in some cases replaced, Aboriginal forms of government; and so on. But more than anything else, the taking of Aboriginal lands by Europeans has probably had the greatest long-term impact on the Aboriginal peoples.

ISBN

1550143697

Publication Date

1998

Publisher

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University

City

Toronto

Disciplines

Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law | Law

Repository Citation

McNeil, Kent, "Defining Aboriginal Title in the 90's: Has the Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?" (1998). Books. 388.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/388