Beyond Rights: The Nisg?a`a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships, Carole Blackburn

In 2000, the Nisg?a’a treaty marked the culmination of over one hundred years of Nisg?a’a people protesting, petitioning, litigating, and negotiating for recognition of their rights. Beyond Rights explores this groundbreaking achievement and its impact. The Nisg?a’a were trailblazers in gaining Supreme Court recognition of unextinguished Aboriginal title, and the treaty marked a turning point in the relationship between First Nations and provincial and federal governments. Using this treaty as a pivotal case study, Carole Blackburn analyzes treaty making as a way to address historical injustice and to achieve contemporary legal recognition, and explores the possibilities for a distinct Indigenous citizenship in a settler state.

Introduction

1 We Have Always Made Laws: Defending the Right to Self-Government

2 Aboriginal Title, Fee Simple, and Dead Capital: Property in Translation

3 Treaty Citizenship: Negotiating beyond Inclusion