Treaties with indigenous peoples in Canada – a not so serious essay

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2357797540895

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Canada, Indigenous rights, Fishing rights, Treaties

Abstract

In contemporary Public International Law, the term ‘treaties’ has a precise meaning: it means “an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law” . Therefore, some may think that contemporary sovereign states understand the legal concept of a treaty is different from the historical context in which the Indigenous People of Canada negotiated those constitutive rights with the British Crown.  In Canada, there are several different treaties with Indigenous Peoples regarding different sorts of rights. The case of the treaties with the First Nations of Canada is a matter of searching for fairness. In the transition from colonial North America to modern Canada, the full meaning of the treaties with the Indigenous Nations was at least subverted. This statement is not a moral judgment; it is a legal as well as political issue ipso facto.

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Felipe Kern Moreira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Professor Associado (nível 2) de Direito Internacional nos cursos de Relações Internacionais, Comércio Exterior e Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG. Vice-Diretor da Faculdade de Direito da FURG. Coordenador adjunto e professor permanente do Programa de Mestrado em Gerenciamento Costeiro - PPGC/FURG e professor colaborador no Programa de Mestrado em Direito e Justiça Social - PPGD/FURG. Líder dos grupos de pesquisa do CNPq "Laboratório de Pesquisas em Política e Direito do Mar-LaBMar" e "A formação de ordens normativas no plano internacional". International Visitor Fellowship (2019), Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Doutor (2009) e Mestre (2004) em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de Brasília-UnB. Scholarship Holder DAAD/CNPq (doutorado sanduíche) na Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt am Main (2007-2009). Bacharel em Direito pela Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG (2001). 

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Moreira, F. K. (2020). Treaties with indigenous peoples in Canada – a not so serious essay. Revista InterAção, 10(2), 52–59. https://doi.org/10.5902/2357797540895

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