Representations of Spaces and Rights on Territories among the Aboriginal Nations of Canada
Following thirty years of researchs on how to break out of colonialism in Aboriginal collectivities, this paper presents final outcomes of a collective approach on the theme of « Indigenous Legal regimes, Institutions and their Use Today » among the programme « Indigenous Peoples and Governance », conducted from 2006 to 2012 in Canada, specially for my concern on the territorial claimings. There, legal ideas refered before the Courts are based on the concept of ownership and on a right on « land » instead of the autochtonous collectivities giving traditionally more importance to a right to access to « fruits » or ressources. Are associated respectively two different « representations of space », one geometric allowing to measure land to give a value for exchange on market and the other, « odologic », like a science of advance or courses, a basis for the auditing of aboriginal title and new judicial claims in the future.