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"""This important piece of scholarship provides much fodder for thought among those with a theoretical as well as an 'applied' bent - and it certainly helps one understand why the process, which began with such fanfare and promise, seems to be bogging down. In all, Between Justice and Certainty offers a refreshing analysis of a complex situation."" - Peter Kulchyski, Head of Native Studies, University of Manitoba"""

This book is destined to become a standard text for university courses dealing with First Nations issues, but, equally important, it should be required reading for politicians, negotiators, and policy makers involved in the B.C. treaty process. Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia will inform all those who seek a deeper understanding of why treaty making and reconciliation must begin with facing our history. For as Woolford argues so persuasively, our failure to do this will create neither certainty nor justice in indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia in the twenty-first century. -- Paulette Regan BC Studies, no. 149, Spring 2006 [T]his argument is very well made. Between Justice and Certainty is strongest in its presentation of a sociology of knowledge and meaning. Woolford's work clearly demonstrates the profound gulf between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parties at the negotiating table - and that these disjunctures are simultaneously masked and intensified by the very procedures that were designed to bridge these distances. -- Nathan Young The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

[T]his argument is very well made. Between Justice and Certainty is strongest in its presentation of a sociology of knowledge and meaning. Woolford's work clearly demonstrates the profound gulf between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parties at the negotiating table - and that these disjunctures are simultaneously masked and intensified by the very procedures that were designed to bridge these distances. -- Nathan Young The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology This book is destined to become a standard text for university courses dealing with First Nations issues, but, equally important, it should be required reading for politicians, negotiators, and policy makers involved in the B.C. treaty process. Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia will inform all those who seek a deeper understanding of why treaty making and reconciliation must begin with facing our history. For as Woolford argues so persuasively, our failure to do this will create neither certainty nor justice in indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia in the twenty-first century. -- Paulette Regan BC Studies, no. 149, Spring 2006

This important piece of scholarship provides much fodder for thought among those with a theoretical as well as an 'applied' bent - and it certainly helps one understand why the process, which began with such fanfare and promise, seems to be bogging down. In all, Between Justice and Certainty offers a refreshing analysis of a complex situation. - Peter Kulchyski, Head of Native Studies, University of Manitoba

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Andrew Woolford is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.

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