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31 Can. J.L. & Soc. 87 (2016)
Canada's Strategy of Dispossession: Aboriginal Land and Rights Cessions in Comprehensive Land Claims

handle is hein.journals/cjls31 and id is 93 raw text is: f Canada's Strategy of Dispossession: Aboriginal Land and Rights Cessions in Comprehensive Land Claims Colin Samson Abstract This paper offers a sociological interpretation of the Canadian Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) process, arguing that CLC is a strategy used by the state to dispossess Aboriginal peoples. CLC does this through leveraging the cession of Aboriginal rights and the relinquishing of indigenous lands. Drawing upon the ongoing Innu Nation Tshash Petapen ('New Dawn') agreement, I examine four related aspects of the process and the agreement which operate to dispos- sess the Innu: (1) the undemocratic social and political contexts in which agreement is elicited, (2) the depletion of Aboriginal rights of the indigenous party, (3) the depletion of indigenous lands, and (4) the creation of wealth and debt. Finally, I will interpret these processes as building on social changes inflicted on the Innu. These are characterized by imposed law and the state of exception. Keywords: comprehensive land claims, dispossession, certainty, cession, Innu Nation, extinguishment, imposed law Rsum6 Cet article pr~sente une interpretation sociologique du processus canadien de revendications territoriales globales (Comprehensive Land Claims, CLC). L'auteur avance que le CLC est une strat~gie employee par l'Ltat pour d~pouiller les peuples autochtones, en exploitant les cessions des droits et des territoires autochtones ancestraux. En se fondant sur le processus d'accord « New Dawn > avec la Nation innu Tshash Petapen, l'auteur examine quatre aspects interreli~s du processus de n~gociation et de l'accord qui se conjuguent pour d~pouiller les Innus: (1) les contextes social et politique antid~mocratiques dans lesquels cet accord est arrach6 aux Innus, (2) l'extinction des droits ancestraux de la partie autochtone, (3) l'&puisement des territoires ancestraux autochtones et (4) la creation de richesse et de dette. Enfin, l'auteur offre une interpretation sociologique de ces processus, selon laquelle ceux-ci se fondent sur des change- ments impos~s aux Innus, sur un syst~me de droit 6tranger 6galement impos6 et sur l'tat d'exception. Mots cls : revendications territoriales globales, d~pouillement, certitude, cession, Nation Innu, extinction, droit impos6 Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe, 2016, Volume 31, no. 1, pp. 87 110. doi:10.1017/cls.2016.2

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