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...Christine Black This essay is a nonlinear narrative that attempts to “unthink” the ways in which Australian Indigenous peoples' identity, sovereignty, and law are discussed. An Australian Aboriginal law narrative and poetry are part of the unthinking language used to discuss these definitions...

...Fiona Paisley This essay concerns the protest of an Australian Aboriginal man outside Australia House in central London. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando made regular appearances outside Australia House on the Strand. Dressed in a black cloth on which he had sewn tiny skeletons, he expressed...

...Irene Watson The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples...

...Rex Butler 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rex Butler ‘‘Bright Shadows Art, Aboriginality, and Aura We should never forget that, from the begin- ning, Aboriginal works of art are reproductions. By this we mean...

...Larissa Behrendt The concept of “home” is multifaceted and complex. This is especially so for Aboriginal people who are forcibly removed from their land, retain deep spiritual and cultural attachments to their traditional homes, but have been forced to create new communities. This essay looks...

... look at two sites to address this problem: first, I examine how the Supreme Court of Canada has defined the “Aboriginal right” to commercial economies since the patriation of Aboriginal rights into the Constitution in 1982; and, second, I examine how these rights are configured through state resource...

...Ian Henderson This essay explores the meaning of home in the 2006 film Ten Canoes . The film resulted from an extraordinary collaboration between the Ramingining Aboriginal community of northeastern Arnhem Land and Australian art-house director Rolf de Heer. It tells of Dayindi (Jamie Dayindi...

... economies is in conflict with capitalist modes of extraction and the settler Canadian court’s narrow conception of the duties of “consultation and accommodation” as the state’s primary responsibility when an activity or project will infringe Aboriginal rights in a traditional territory. The purpose...

... and/or collectively held lands and resources that are nonetheless constructed by the law as private disputes, largely insulated from the reach of constitutionally-derived Aboriginal rights. After tracing the long history of BC’s “injunction habit,” I examine the judicial and policy practices that make the “new normal...

... of the group arrive at the same understanding of the meta-­ narrative? The problem with the ‘everything-­is-­narrative’ account is that it presupposes the very intersubjectivity it is trying to explain.”7 Because law plays a formative role in shaping the identities of aboriginal subjects...

... no evidence of any previous European presence as they charted the east coast of New Holland-New South Wales. Moreover, they saw no more than 30 or 40 naked Aborigines gathered together at any one time, no substantial human shelters, no indication ofsocial structures or political in­ stitutions, no signs...

... seven times more likely to be sentenced to imprisonment. The result was that Māori made up approximately 14 percent of the gen- eral population and more than 50 percent of the prison population.2 In Canada, Aboriginal people compose 3 percent of the general population, but Aboriginal...

... . 1994 . “ The Impact of Major Resource Development Projects on Aboriginal Communities: A Review of the Literature .” The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples . http://data2.archives.ca/rcap/pdf/rcap-51.pdf . Energy Manitoba . 2011 . Winnipeg River Dams . energy.org , http...

... Indian reservations in the United States combined. Apart from its size, ANCSA marks a signifi­ cant departure from previous aboriginal settle­ ments because it was the first to use...

..., if it contained something the white man wanted, was not his castle. Australia s Aborigines have been less fortunate than the American Indian. By organizing and defending themselves, American Indians forced the white man to recognize (though grudgingly) their existence and rights. Aborigines, however, less...

..., but that in exchange she would be brought up as a white girl ‘‘in a good religious environment That’s what Millicent was told by the Protector of Aborigines and the Child...

... of challenge in previously dormant minorities teachers, nurses, public servants, students, aborigines, workers, the peace movement, anti-conscription forces. Student Guerilla, weekly newsletter of Students for Democratic Action, Uni­ versity of Queensland, Brisbane, Octo­ ber 3, 1968 On March 3, 1968...

... at Grif- fith University. She is the author of Loving Protection? Aboriginal Women’s Rights and Australian Feminism 1919–1939 (Melbourne University Press, 2010) and Glamour in the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, 2009), which is concerned with internationalism, the politics of race...

... on behalf of indigenous Australians, the commonwealth government listed health as one of four domains for indigenous development. In 1976, the commonwealth government commissioned the House of Represen- tatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs to conduct a review of Aboriginal health...

... of Environmental Assessment Processes . Fidler Courtney Hitch Michael . 2007 . “ Impact and Benefit Agreements: A Contentious Issue for Environmental and Aboriginal Justice .” Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 35 , no. 2 : 45 – 69 . Fidler Courtney...