The "nations within": aboriginal-state relations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand

Introduction: aboriginal peoples as nations

Part I: Aboriginal nations within Canada. 'Unfinished business': reconstructing aboriginal-state relations

The social context

Aboriginal policy

The politics of self-government

The Department of Indian Affairs: from bureaucracy towards empowerment?

Aboriginal protest, symbolic politics, and political reform

Métis and Inuit nationalism

Conclusion: from periphery to centre

Part II: Aboriginal nations within the United States. America: one nation...with liberty and justice for all?

Part III: The Maori of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Devolving Maori-state relations

Part IV: The 'nations within': towards a restructuring of aboriginal-state relations.