As a result, Indian attitudes towards the courts and litigation as a strategy are changing. ... Modern historians see even the famous treaties with the Iroquois confederacy not simply in terms of rights, but as part of British political strategies designed to deal with the French and with the other tribes further inland. ... When the British defeated the French, Indians could no longer play one colonial power off against another. ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indi...

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