Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism explores the emancipatory potential of Indigenous traditions, considers their value as the basis for good laws and good lives, and critiques the Canadian constitutional traditions' failure to recognize their significance.

Physical philosophy : mobility and Indigenous peoples -- Civil (dis)obedience, freedom and democracy -- Indigenous politics and Canadian constitutionalism -- (Ab)originalism and Aboriginal rights -- Legislation and indigenous self-determination in Canada and the United States -- Aboriginal and treaty rights and violence against women.