Table of contents
1. Locating Indigenous self-determination in the margins of settler sovereignty: an introduction, Lisa Ford;
2. Vattel in revolutionary America: from the rules of war to the rule of law, Ian Hunter;
3. Settler sovereignty and the shapeshifting Crown, Paul McHugh and Lisa Ford;
4. 'It would only be just': a study of territoriality and trading posts along the Mackenzie River, 1800-1827, Janna Promislow;
5. Pan-nationalism as a crisis management strategy: John Ross and the Tahlequah conference of 1843, Tim Garrison;
6. Obstacles to 'a proper exercise of jurisdiction' - sorcery and criminal justice in the settler-Indigenous encounter in Australia, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane;
7. Vanished theocracies: Christianity, war and politics in colonial New Zealand 1830-1880, Richard Boast;
8. When settlers went to war against Christianity, Norman Etherington;
9. The identity of indigenous political thought, Tim Rowse;
10. Economy, change and self-determination: a Central Australian case, Diane Austin-Broos;
11. Land rights and development in Australia: caring for, benefiting from, governing the Indigenous estate, Jon Altman;
12. Indigenous land rights and self-government: inseparable entitlements, Kent McNeil;
13. Three Peversities in Indian Law, Jacob T. Levy;
14. Section 223 and the shape of Native Title: The limits of jurisdictional thinking, Shaunnagh Dorsett and Shaun McVeigh;
15. Whakaeke i nga ngaru - riding the waves: Maori legal traditions in New Zealand public life, Carwyn Jones;
16. Indigenous jurisdiction as a provocation of settler state political theory: the significance of human boundaries, Kirsty Gover;
17. Bibliography