Strategies of Justice: Aboriginal Peoples, Persistent Injustice, and the Ethics of Political Action

American Indian tribes in the United States and Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Metis, and Inuit) in Canada continue to experience patterns of persistent injustice that often endanger the lives and well-being of their members. What kinds of political actions are these groups normatively justified in undertaking when seeking to combat harmful laws and policies? This book examines normative questions surrounding democratic speech, justified illegality, tradeoffs with the interests of other disadvantaged groups, and ways of planning for the long-term future. The book is especially concerned with bringing the tools of analytic political philosophy to bear on these questions. The book should be of interest to political theorists, philosophers, and scholars of American Indian/Aboriginal Studies.