Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and legal history, this collection offers a long-term view of the legal, political and administrative relationships between Indigenous collectivities and nation-states. Placing historical contingency and complexity at the center of analysis, the papers collected here examine in detail the process by which.

1. Locating indigenous self-determination in the margins of settler sovereignty: an introduction / Lisa Ford -- 2. Vattel in revolutionary America: from the rules of war to the rule of law / Ian Hunter -- 3. Settler sovereignty and the shapeshifting Crown / Paul McHugh and Lisa Ford -- 4. 'It would only be just': a study of territoriality and trading posts along the Mackenzie River 1800-1827 / Janna Promislow -- 5. Pan-nationalism as a crisis management strategy: John Ross and the Tahlequah conference of 1843 / Tim Garrison -- 6. Obstacles to 'a proper exercise of jurisdiction' -- sorcery and criminal justice in the settler-indigenous encounter in Australia / Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane -- 7. Vanished theocracies: Christianity, war and politics in colonial New Zealand 1830-1880 / Richard Boast -- 8. When settlers went to war against Christianity / Norman Etherington -- 9. The identity of indigenous political thought / Tim Rowse -- 10. Economy, change and self-determination: a Central Australian case / Diane Austin-Broos -- 11. Land rights and development in Australia: caring for, benefiting from, governing the indigenous estate / Jon Altman -- 12. Indigenous land rights and s…