Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements with American Indian Tribes as Models for Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government

• Main Author: Getches, David H.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 1993
• Subjects: First Nations; sovereignty; Aboriginal self-government; indigenous peoples; negotiated sovereignty; Charlottetown Accord; intergovernmental agreements; interjurisdictional agreements; negotiation; Indian tribes; states; tribal sovereignty; taxation; law enforcement; solid waste disposal; environmental regulation; land use; comparative law; intergovernmental relations; constitution; United States; Canada; Comparative and Foreign Law; Constitutional Law; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; Environmental Law; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Jurisdiction; Land Use Law; Legal History; Tax Law; Charlottetown
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/799; https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1747&context=faculty-articles

Constitutional issues related to First Nations sovereignty have dominated Aboriginal affairs in Canada for a considerable period. The constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal self-government has, however, received a setback with the recent failure of the Charlottetown Accord in October of 1992. Non...