The Pleasure of the Crown. Dara Culhane

       in memory of my mother Claire Eglin Culhane 1918-1996 who never failed to speak truth to power

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Generalized Map of British Columbia

       PART I: JUSTITIA OMNIBUS (JUSTICE FOR ALL)

       Chapter 1: How Did the Crown Acquire Title?

       ~ The Long and Short of It

       ~ Human Being, Citizen, Anthropologist

       Chapter 2: In Search of Reason

       ~ The Law in its Majesty

       ~ Late One Night at the Legion

       PART II: TERRA NULLIUS (UNOCCUPIED, EMPTY LAND)

       Chapter 3: Cultures Similar and Different

       ~ Creating Race in the Interests of Empire

       ~ Mutiny and Desertion as Common Sense

       Chapter 4: Beginning at the Beginning

       ~ Aboriginal Peoples Were Here

       ~ Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive

       ~ Eclecticism

       ~ Imperialist Competitions in Terra Nullius

       ~ Imperialist Nostalgia in Terra Nullius

       ~ Enough and As Good

       ~ Nation to Nation. Words to Paper

       PART III: TERRA INCOGNITA (UNKNOWN LAND)

       Chapter 5: The Great Chain of Precedent

       ~ Honour Among Thieves. South of the Border

       ~ Honour Among Thieves. North of the Border

       ~ Honour Among Thieves. In Africa

       Chapter 6: White Papers and Legal Tests: the 1970’s

       ~ Law, Power and Resistance

       ~ Logic, Legal Hysteria and Rifle Shots on Vancouver Island

       ~ Civilization and the Whimsical Destruction of Property

       ~ From Law to Politics and Back Again

       ~ The Honour of the Crown Below Par

       Chapter 7: Conflicts and Constitutions: The 1980s

       ~ The Master’s Tools: The Comprehensive Claims Policy

       ~ Title on the Baker Lake Tundra: Lower Peaks than Mexico

       ~ The Evolution of the Dedicated White People Band at Bear Island

       ~ The Master’s House: The Repatriation of the Constitution

       ~ Testing, Testing: From “Use and Occupancy” to “Culture” in the Sparrow Decision

       ~ Ping Pong

       PART IV: ECCE SIGNUM (BEHOLD THE PROOF)

       Chapter 8: Delgamuukw versus The Queen

       ~ All the World’s a Stage

       ~ Do Aboriginal Peoples Really Exist?

       Chapter 9: The Gitksan’s and Wet’suwet’en’s Case

       ~ A Native Point of View

       ~ Experts in Living Memory

       ~ The Ancestors are Watching

       Chapter 10: Experts on Behalf of the Plaintiffs

       ~ Anthropology: Interpretation and Understanding?

       ~ Here Come the Anthros

       ~ Law and Masculine Hysteria