The Terms of Our Surrender
Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu
$95.20
- Paperback
371 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2021
Summary
Based on extensive fieldwork and oral history, The Terms of Our Surrender is a powerful critical appraisal of unceded indigenous land ownership in eastern Canada. Set against an ethnographic, historical and legal framework, the book traces the myriad ways the Canadian state has successfully evaded the 1763 Royal Proclamation that guaranteed First Nations people a right to their land and way of life.
Focusing on the Innu of Quebec and Labrador, whose land has been taken for re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912250455 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1912250454 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Cassell |
| Publisher: | University of London |
| Imprint: | University of London Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 371 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2021 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Open access titles |
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Critics Review
“Joining together robusthistorical and socio-legal research with an activist spirit, ‘The Terms of Our Surrender’ brings freshunderstanding to ongoing colonialism in North America. The scrupulous documentation and argument in thisbook will help correct any misapprehensions about the benign nature of Canada’streatment of indigenous peoples.“
-Professor Colin Samson (author of The Colonialism of Human Rights: Ongoing Hypocrisies of Western Liberalism)
Elizabeth Cassell
Elizabeth Cassell is a lawyer, a former university lecturer and practitioner in Property & Trusts law who has travelled extensively in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and who believes that the law is not enough to reconcile the issues of indigenous land rights in Canada. Through oral history, she gives voice to those deeply affected by the Canadian land claims process.
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