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Article: Sovereignty and the Aboriginal nations of Rupert's Land.
- Article from:
- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Kent McNeil
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
Toronto
Where the rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada are concerned, history and law are inseparable. Lawyers working on Aboriginal claims ignore history at their peril. But the converse is also true -- historians whose work involves the Aboriginal peoples cannot afford to disregard law. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Rupert's Land, out of which the province of Manitoba was at least partially created. Solutions to lingering questions of sovereignty, territorial boundaries, jurisdiction, title to land, and so on, all must be sought in the middle ground where law and ...