The Pleasure of the Crown. Dara Culhane

      

      THE PLEASURE OF THE CROWN

       Anthropology, Law and First Nations

      Dara Culhane

      Talonbooks

       1997

       for feral travelers in the vast emptiness

       in memory of my mother Claire Eglin Culhane 1918-1996 who never failed to speak truth to power

      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 Deceive

       ~ Eclecticism

       ~ 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 Property

       ~ From 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 Stage

       ~ Do 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