Champagne, D., K. Torjesen & S. Steiner (Eds.). Indigenous Peoples and the Modem State, Toronto, Alta Mira Press, 2005. pp. 172. ISBN 978-0759-1079-91. $26.95.
Anderson, T., B. Benson & T. Flanagan (Eds.) Self Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. pp. 346. ISBN 978-0804-754415. $35.00.
These two publications represent bi-polar conceptualizations about Aboriginal people in North America. How such different views of Aboriginal life emerge reflects both the disciplines and the literature read by the contributing authors. The contributors in Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State have, without exception, read …