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• Title:Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Belmessous, Saliha.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
  

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  • Call Number: K3248.L36 N38 2012
    
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  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: K3248.L36 N38 2012
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
  Indigenous peoples--Claims--History.
  
• Description:vii, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199794850 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : the problem of indigenous claim making in colonial history / Saliha Belmessous
  Possessing empire : Iberian claims and interpolity law / Lauren Benton
  Law, land and legal rhetoric in colonial New Spain : a look at the changing rhetoric of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century / R. Jovita Baber
  Court and chronicle : a native Andean's engagement with Spanish colonial law / Rolena Adorno
  Powhatan legal claims / Andrew Fitzmaurice
  Wabanaki versus French and English claims in northeastern North America, c. 1715 / Saliha Belmessous
  "Chief princes and owners of all" : Native American appeals to the crown in the early modern British Atlantic / Craig Yirush
  Framing and reframing the agon : contesting narratives and counter-narratives on Maori property rights and political constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / Mark Hickford
  "Bring this paper to the good governor" : indigenous petitioning in Britain's Australian colonies / Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell
  The Native Land Court : making property in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Christopher Hilliard
  African and European initiatives in the transformation of land tenure in colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Kristin Mann
  Afterword : the normative force of the past / Duncan Ivison.