Turtle Talk

Peter Vicaire, our 2010-2011 Center Fellow, has posted his paper, “Two Roads Diverged in a Wood: A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Rights in a North American Constitutional Context,” on SSRN.

Here is the abstract:

Fueled by contrasting political backdrops, Indigenous tribes on opposite sides of what has become the Canadian/American border have traveled upon very different trajectories, receiving dissimilar treatment from the respective governments that have laid claim to their lands. Tribes in Canada have retained significantly less rights as Indigenous peoples than have tribes in the United States.