Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series)

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Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals which were established through the second one half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have in consequence created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that emerges from these land-claims processes is regularly criticized for being “presentist” – inaccurately interpreting historical actions and actors through the lens of present-day values, practices, and concerns. In Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History, Arthur Ray examines how claims-oriented research is regularly fitted to the existing frames of indigenous rights law and claims legislation and, consequently, has influenced the development of these laws and legislation. Through a comparative study encompassing the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Ray also explores the ways in which more than a few procedures and settings for claims adjudication have influenced and changed the usage of historical evidence, made space for indigenous voices, stimulated scholarly debates about the cultural and historical experiences of indigenous peoples on the time of initial European contact and afterward, and have provoked reactions from politicians and scholars. Whilst giving serious consideration to the flaws and strengths of presentist histories, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History provides communities with essential information on how history is used and how methods are adapted and changed.

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