Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous land rights in Commonwealth countries : dispossession, negotiation and community action : proceedings of a Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workhop [sic], Christchurch, February 1992 / edited by Garth Cant, John Overton and Eric Pawson ; [participants and contributors: Richard Baker ... et al.].

Author

Commonwealth Geographical Bureau. Workshop (1992 : Christchurch, N.Z.)

Publication

Christchurch : Dept. of Geography, University of Canterbury and the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board for the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Cant, Garth
• Overton, John (John D.)
• Pawson, Eric
• Baker, Richard
• University of Canterbury. Department of Geography
• Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board.

Description

vi, 229 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Articles by Richard Baker, Richard Howitt, Jocelyn Davies and William Harrison, Elspeth Young annotated separately.

Subject

• Right of property > Commonwealth countries > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Commonwealth countries > Property > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Commonwealth countries > Government relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Windows into process: the context of the workshop on indigenous land rights / Garth Cant -- "That the law be made one?" / David V. Williams -- The struggle for survival of an Aboriginal group: the Veddas of Sri Lanka / U.A. Chandrasena -- State lands expropriation for a plantation and its impact on peasants in Ghana / Edwin A. Gyasi -- The criminalization of Indian hunting in Ontario, Canada, ca. 1892-1930 [abstract only] / Frank Tough -- Aboriginal property systems in land and resources / Peter J. Usher -- A dynamic tradition: Canada's Pacific coast commercial salmon fishery and Aboriginal rights / Dianne Newell -- Sovereignty, relocation and land rights: the example of the Chagos archipelago and the lease for the American naval base at Diego Garcia / A Cader Kalla -- The treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal: Maori claims in New Zealand / Evelyn Stokes -- The historical geographer and the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'sen comprehensive claim: the role of the expert witness / Arthur J. Ray -- "Gough Witlam time': Land rights in the Borroloola area of Australia's Northern Territory / Richard Baker -- Coming of age between the giants and the trees: a young Indian village in northern Canada struggles to maintain land and resources / Brent Hall -- The treaty claims process in Aoteraroa and spatial information / Vaughan R.J; Payne -- Reintegrating people, land and government: the Aboriginal land question in British Columbia/ Lawrence D. Berg -- Aborigines, mining and regional restructuring: applied peoples' geography? / Richard Howitt -- Blockades of timber roads in Sarawak: assertion of land rights / Francis Lian -- The protection of native customary lands under the Sarawak laws / Antalai Sawing -- The impact of Indonesia's integrated tourism development on Melanesian land rights in Biak Island, West Papua (Irian Jaya) / Henk Rumbewas -- Water management and the Treaty of Waitangi: an Opihi catchment case study / Fiona Oliphant, Jack Reihana and Kati Huirapa -- The possible impact of an implemented Yukon land claim agreement / Frank Duerden -- National parks in the Canadian arctic: the case of the Nunavut land claim agreement / Terry Fenge -- Aboriginal land management and community development in western South Australia: a case study of Ceduna / William Harrison -- Managing the land: land and Aboriginnal community development in Australia / Elspeth A. Young.

ISBN

0473017997 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 33201415
• SCSB-12866008

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library