Social Science Native American Studies
The World is Our Witness
The Historic Journey of the Nisga'a into Canada
- Publisher
- Fifth House Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2006
- Category
- Native American Studies, Treaties
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897252086
- Publish Date
- Jun 2006
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
The Final Agreement of Canada's Nisga'a Treaty is a major milestone in the history of aboriginal and government negotiations. This ground-breaking treaty recognizes the right of the Nisga'a people to live where they have always lived, and to own and control the land they live on.
The World Is Our Witness traces the history of the Nisga'a and their claim, details the elements of the treaty, and offers an analysis of the characters, political intrigue, and opposition to this historic deal. It provides an essential foundation for understanding the future of Native American land claims and battles for recognition.
About the authors
For many years Tom Molloy has been extensively involved in Aboriginal land claims as Chief Negotiator for the Government of Canada. He currently holds the position of Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996.
Donald Ward sold his first story to CBC when he was nineteen-years-old and he has been writing professionally for the last forty years. His fiction is both thoughtful and humourous and always accessible no matter how fantastic his grounding premise may be. In 2004 his short fiction collection Nobody Goes to Earth Any More, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, and his story “Badger” won the 2009 CBC Literary Award.
John Ralston Saul is one of Canada’s leading social and political commentators. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy and contemporary politics, including Voltaire’s Bastards, Reflections Of A Siamese Twin, and most recently The Collapse of Globalism. Saul was the Massey lecturer in 1995, and won the 1996 Governor General’s Award for nonfiction for The Unconscious Civilization, based on those lectures. He is the former president of PEN Canada and the creator of the acclaimed LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture series. A regular speaker and panelist across Canada and internationally, John Ralston Saul currently lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
"This is an important book on an issue that is crucial to all Canadians."
— Alberta Views
"Fascinating. . . Molloy's book is a rarity: a story of negotiations and reconciliation."
— The Toronto Star
"The World is Our Witness is a story told with simple eloquence and refreshing candour. It is characterized by care for accuracy, modest understatement, sage observation and passion for equality and justice."
— Prairie Messenger
"Two of the most important accomplishments of Canadians over the last quarter century—and perhaps longer—have been the creation of Nunavut and the completion of the Nisga'a treaty."
— John Ralston Saul
"The Nisga'a treaty proves, beyond all doubt, that negotiations—not lawsuits, not roadblocks, not violence—are the most effective, most honourable way to resolve aboriginal issues in this country."
— Joe Gosnell former president of Nisga'a Lisims Government
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