The Terms of Our Surrender: Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu

by Elizabeth Cassell

An analysis of the laws determining indigenous land ownership in eastern Canada.

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, this book traces the myriad ways the Canadian state has evaded the 1763 Royal Proclamation that guaranteed First Nations people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912250454
• ISBN13: 9781912250455
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Length: 304 Pages