Claiming Memory in British Columbia: Aboriginal Rights and the State

• Main Author: Korsmo, Fae L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1996
• Subjects: common law; Delgamuukw v. The Queen; colonialism; ethnocentrism; British Columbia Supreme Court; British Columbia Court of Appeal; sovereign; British Columbia; Canada; Northern Sweden; saami
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8950j6x3

INTRODUCTION While attending a meeting of a Saami organization in northern Sweden, I introduced myself to an older fellow during a coffee break. ”From America?”he asked and paused. “When do you go back?” I replied that I planned to return in a couple of months. He smiled. “You’ll go back,’’ he said,...