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Law Indigenous Peoples

Conflict in Caledonia

Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law

by (author) Laura DeVries

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Indigenous Peoples, Native American Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774821841
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $87.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774821858
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774821865
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the issue of land rights and sparked a series of ongoing events known as the “Caledonia Crisis.” This powerful account of the dispute links the actions of police, officials, and locals to non-Aboriginal discourses about law, landscape, and identity. DeVries encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to reconsider their assumptions, to view “facts” such as the rule of law as culturally specific notions that prevent truly equitable dialogue. She seeks out possible solutions in alternative conceptualizations of sovereignty over land and law embedded in the Constitution.

About the author

Awards

  • Winner, Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize

Contributor Notes

Laura DeVries was born and raised in Southern Ontario. She now lives and practices law in Vancouver, after working at the Supreme Court of Canada as a judicial law clerk from 2013 – 2014. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa in 2000 and her M.A. and J.D. at the University of British Columbia in 2009 and 2013.