"This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. Using case studies from Australia and Canada, it discusses aboriginal child welfare in historical and comparative perspectives and critically examines recent legal reforms …
"Still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska. It offers lucid explanations of the often-tangled history of policy and law. Divided into four broad themes of indigenous rights to land, subsistence, service…
"This edited volume evaluates the relevance of the dominant theoretical discourse to understand the origin and outcome of the social actions for education undertaken in various regions of the world."--Jacket.
Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law. Native American tribes have a far more complex relationship with the environment than is captured by the stereotype of Indians as e…
