Indigenous Governance Database
Self-Government rights
Image
![Aboriginal Nationhood and the Inherent Right to Self-Government Aboriginal Nationhood and the Inherent Right to Self-Government](/sites/nnigovernance.arizona.edu/files/styles/resources/public/resources/gordonchristie.png?itok=cS-RfC-u)
Aboriginal Nationhood and the Inherent Right to Self-Government
Canadian governments and courts recognize that pre-contact Aboriginal societies possessed their own legal and political systems and that to this day these nations have not surrendered the powers they fully exercised before colonial policies undercut their authority. Unfortunately, however, the…