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One Man's Justice
This print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers. -- A Quaker thwarted by the government in her attempts to prevent her tax dollars from being used for military purposes. A man wrongly convicted as an habitual criminal. A girl rendered brain damaged and quadriplegic by a botched hospital procedure. Tom Berger may be best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precendent-setting Nisga'a Accord, bu the has also had a great impact upon a panoply of causes, often representing those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. His clients were often the poor, the vulnerable, the dispossessed. In a career that span...
The Geography of Hope
Discusses the issues involved in northern development, with specific reference to the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
Priorities for Canada's North
Press release announcing speech to be presented by Thomas R. Berger at two conferences held in Edmonton, November 3, 1976: Seventh National Northern Development Conference and Citizens' Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development. Also includes transcript of speech in which Berger states that first priority for northern Canada is to make right decision about Mackenzie Valley pipeline.
Fragile Freedoms
From a series of lectures on civil liberties. Includes chapters on Louis Riel and the new nation and the Nishga Indians and aboriginal rights.
Village Journey
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed by Congress in 1971, hailed at the time as the most liberal settlement ever achieved with Native Americans, granted 44 million acres and nearly $1 billion in cash to a new entity -- Native corporations. When this book was published in 1985, that settlement was bitterly resented by the Alaska Natives themselves. Thomas R. Berger, invited by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to head the Alaska Native Review Commission, traveled to sixty-two villages and towns, held village meetings and listened to testimony from Inuit, Aboriginal peoples, and Aleuts. His report, Village Journey, suggests changes in the law and public attitudes that will be required to reach a fair accommodation with the Alaska Natives and enable them to keep their land for themselves and for their descendants. The author's new Preface deals with problems still facing Alaska Natives and their corporations. This is a new release of the book published in May 1995.
A Long and Terrible Shadow
This history of the native peoples of North and South America since first contact with Europeans explores the effects of native cultures, health, economies and land rights as well as law and tradition, of settlement and colonization.
A Long and Terrible Shadow
In this compelling book, respected lawyer and Native rights advocate Thomas Berger surveys the history of the Americas since their "discovery" by Christopher Columbus in 1492. His accounts of the slaughter and disenfranchisement of indigenous people throughout North, Central and South American reveal a searing pattern of almost unimaginable duplicity and inhumanity. But as A Long and Terrible Shadow makes clear, Native peoples have defied the odds, waging a tenacious struggle to survive and to re-emerge as distinct cultures. As Native Voices demand action and Native land claims take their rightful place on the political agenda, this book provides a focus for crucial debate.
