Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-403)
Contents:
Front Cover; Table of Contents; Generalized Map of British Columbia; PART I: JUSTITIA OMNIBUS (JUSTICE FOR ALL); Chapter 1: How Did the Crown Acquire Title?; The Long and Short of It; Human Being, Citizen, Anthropologist; Chapter 2: In Search of Reason; The Law in its Majesty; Late One Night at the Legion; PART II: TERRA NULLIUS (UNOCCUPIED, EMPTY LAND); Chapter 3: Cultures Similar and Different; Creating Race in the Interests of Empire; Mutiny and Desertion as Common Sense; Chapter 4: Beginning at the Beginning; Aboriginal Peoples Were Here Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to DeceiveEclecticism; Imperialist Competitions in Terra Nullius; Imperialist Nostalgia in Terra Nullius; Enough and As Good; Nation to Nation. Words to Paper; PART III: TERRA INCOGNITA (UNKNOWN LAND); Chapter 5: The Great Chain of Precedent; Honour Among Thieves. South of the Border; Honour Among Thieves. North of the Border; Honour Among Thieves. In Africa; Chapter 6: White Papers and Legal Tests: the 1970's; Law, Power and Resistance; Logic, Legal Hysteria and Rifle Shots on Vancouver Island Civilization and the Whimsical Destruction of PropertyFrom Law to Politics and Back Again; The Honour of the Crown Below Par; Chapter 7: Conflicts and Constitutions: The 1980s; The Master's Tools: The Comprehensive Claims Policy; Title on the Baker Lake Tundra: Lower Peaks than Mexico; The Evolution of the Dedicated White People Band at Bear Island; The Master's House: The Repatriation of the Constitution; Testing, Testing: From "Use and Occupancy" to "Culture" in the Sparrow Decision; Ping Pong; PART IV: ECCE SIGNUM (BEHOLD THE PROOF); Chapter 8: Delgamuukw versus The Queen All the World's a StageDo Aboriginal Peoples Really Exist?; Chapter 9: The Gitksan's and Wet'suwet'en's Case; A Native Point of View; Experts in Living Memory; The Ancestors are Watching; Chapter 10: Experts on Behalf of the Plaintiffs; Anthropology: Interpretation and Understanding?; Here Come the Anthros; Law and Masculine Hysteria; Academic Freedom; Chapter 11: The Crown's Case; The Political Economy of Litigation; Anthropology: The Science of "Man"?; Chapter 12: Experts on Behalf of the Defendants; Her Majesty's Loyal Anthropologist; Malignant Mythologies; Hegemonic Moments Chapter 13: Jewels in the CrownTemporal Purgatory: The Protohistoric Period; Who Created Private Property?; The Magic of Commodity Fetishism; Chapter 14: From Fur Trading Frontier to White Man's Province; Believing What You See. Seeing What You Believe; On the One Hand. And On the Other...; Chapter 15: Old Questions. New Century; The First Definite Hint; The Era of Permanent Penetration; Resistance versus Assimilation; PART V: DIES IRAE (JUDGMENT DAY); Chapter 16: Reasons for Judgment; Nasty, British (Columbian) and Long; The Vast Emptiness; Might Makes Right
