Between Justice and Certainty

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

• Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Between the Procedure and Substance of Justice3 The Imposition of Colonial Visions of Justice4 First Nations Justice Frames5 The British Columbia Treaty Process6 Visions of Justice7 Visions of Certainty8 ConclusionNotesReferences

[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)