Introduction. “This Is Our Land”: Aboriginal Title at Customary and Common Law in Comparative Contexts / Louis A. Knafla
Part 1: Sovereignty, Extinguishment, and Expropriation of Aboriginal Title
1 From the US Indian Claims Commission Cases to Delgamuukw: Facts, Theories, and Evidence in North American Land Claims / Arthur Ray
2 Social Theory, Expert Evidence, and the Yorta Yorta Rights Appeal Decision / Bruce Rigsby
3 Law’s Infidelity to Its Past: The Failure to Recognize Indigenous Jurisdiction in Australia and Canada / David Yarrow
4 The Defence of Native Title and Dominion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Compared with Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra
5 Beyond Aboriginal Title in Yukon: First Nations Land Registries / Brian Ballantyne
Part 2: Native Land, Litigation, and Indigenous Rights
6 The “Race” for Recognition: Toward a Policy of Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand
7 The Sources and Content of Indigenous Land Rights in Australia and Canada: A Critical Comparison / Kent McNeil
8 Common Law, Statutory Law, and the Political Economy of the Recognition of Indigenous Australian Rights in Land / Nicolas Peterson
9 Claiming Native Title in the Foreshore and Seabed / Jacinta Ruru
10 Waterpower Developments and Native Water Rights Struggles in the North American West in the Early Twentieth Century: A View from Three Stoney Nakoda Cases / Kenichi Matsui
Conclusion. Power and Principle: State-Indigenous Relations across Time and Space / Peter W. Hutchins
Selected Bibliography; General Index; Index of Cases; Index of Statutes, Treaties, and Agreements
