Winner of "Scholarly Writing"
at the 2013 Saskatchewan Book Awards
Reconciling Sovereignties:
Aboriginal Nations and Canada
Felix Hoehn
$30.00 182 pages Softcover
October 2012 ISBN 978-0-88880-577-5
Reconciling pre-existing Aboriginal sovereignty with de facto Crown sovereignty will not threaten the territory of Canada, nor will it result in a legal vacuum. Rather, it will facilitate the self-determination of Aboriginal peoples within Canada and strengthen Canada’s claim to territorial integrity in the eyes of international law.
In Reconciling Sovereignties, Felix Hoehn presents a persuasive case that the once unquestioned and uncritical acceptance of the Crown’s assertion of sovereignty over Aboriginal peoples and their territories is now being replaced by an emerging paradigm that recognizes the equality of Aboriginal and settler peoples and requires these peoples to negotiate how they will share sovereignty in Canada. continue...
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