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Justice in Aboriginal Communities

Justice in Aboriginal Communities

Sentencing Alternatives
by Ross Gordon Green
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tagged : sentencing, criminology, civil law

Combining qualitative research, personal experience, and scholarly literature Ross Green looks at the evolution of the Canadian criminal justice system and the values upon which it is based against the Aboriginal concepts of justice. Using his personal experiences as a defence lawyer, case studies of several communities, as well as interviews with …

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The Dynamics of Native Politics

The Dynamics of Native Politics

The Alberta Metis Experience
by Joe Sawchuk
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tagged : native american, native american studies, cultural

Historically, Aboriginal people have had little influence on the development of Native policy from within government; as a result political organizations have been established to lobby government on Native peoples’ issues. Using his experience as director of land claims for the Métis Association of Alberta, Joe Sawchuk explains how these Aborigi …

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Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation

Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem
edited by Richmond Campbell & Lanning Sowden
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This anthology, the first to bring together the most important philosophical essays on the paradoxes, analyses the concepts underlying the Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem and evaluates the proposed solutions. The relevant theories have been developed over the past four decades in a variety of disciplines: mathematics, economics, psychology …

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Strangers in Blood

Strangers in Blood

Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country
by Jennifer S.H. Brown
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tagged : native american, native american studies

For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyages the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson’s Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer’s survi …

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