Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc., Indigenous Peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic Identity, Human rights -- Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada, Ethnic identity, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Band membership, Human Rights, Linguistic minorities -- legal status laws etc. -- Canada, Linguistic minorities 

"In Canada, indigenous peoples and official-language minorities benefit from certain rights that are not available to the rest of the population, but exactly who can claim membership in these groups remains a controversial issues. Protecting a group's culture and resources is often seen to be at odds with the freedom of individuals to claim membership in that group.

In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally revelant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity."--Back cover. 

xv, 252 pages ; 24 cm. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.