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Honour Among Nations?

Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People

Academic Monograph

Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain (eds)

Honour Among Nations? emerges from the growing academic and public policy interest in the area of Indigenous peoples, treaties and agreements.

About this Title

This important collection emerges from the growing academic and public policy interest in the area of Indigenous peoples, treaties and agreements – challenging readers to engage with the idea of treaty and agreement making in changing political and legal landscapes.

Honour Among Nations? contains contributions from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America including Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, Paul Chartrand and Noel Pearson. It features a preface by Sir Anthony Mason.

This book covers topics as diverse as treaty and agreement making in Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia; land, the law, political rights and Indigenous peoples; maritime agreements; health; governance and jurisdiction; race discrimination in Australia; the Timor Sea Treaty; copyright and intellectual property issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors.

Honour Among Nations? makes a significant contribution to international debates on Indigenous peoples’ rights, treaties and agreement making.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Treaties, Agreement Making and the Recognition of Indigenous Customary Polities
Chapter 2: Indigenous-Settler Treaty Making in Canada
Chapter 3: The Formulation of Privilege and Exclusion in Settler States: Land, Law, Political Rights and Indigenous Peoples in Nineteenth-century Australia and Natal
Chapter 4: Land is Susceptible of Ownership
Chapter 5: 'Now Balanda Say We Lost Our Land in 1788': Challenges to the Recognition of Yolngu Law in Contemporary Australia
Chapter 6: Toward Justice and Reconciliation: Treaty Recommendations of Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)
Chapter 7: Treaties in British Columbia: Comprehensive Agreement Making in a Democratic Context
Chapter 8: The Shadow of the Law and the British Columbia Treaty Process: '[Can] the unthinkable become common place'?
Chapter 9: Treaty Making in New Zealand/Te Hanga Tiriti ki Aotearoa
Chapter 10: Agreement Making and the Native Title Act
Chapter 11: Symbolism and Function: From Native Title to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Self-government
Chapter 12: Comprehensive Native Title Negotiations in South Australia
Chapter 13: Maritime Agreements and the Recognition of Customary Marine Tenure in the Northern Territory
Chapter 14: Rio Tinto's Agreement Making in Australia in a Context of Globalisation
Chapter 15: The Framework Agreements: Intergovernmental Agreements and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Chapter 16: Race Discrimination in Australia: A Challenge for Treaty  Settlement?
Chapter 17: A Sovereign Text? Copyright, Publishing Agreements and Intellectual Property Issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors
Chapter 18: Evaluating Agreements between Indigenous Peoples and Resource Developers
Chapter 19: Creative Conflict Resolution: The Timor Sea Treaty between Australia and East Timor

About the Author

The four editors of Honour Among Nations? are all University of Melbourne academics.

Marcia Langton is Inaugural Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies.

Maureen Tehan is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School.

Lisa Palmer is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies.

Kathryn Shain is a Research Fellow in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies.

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