I have a research request that might benefit from the help of some Canadian, Aboriginal, or even British, political historians of the twentieth century.

I'm currently working on an article for the BC Studies journal about Aboriginal protests of the patriation of the Canadian Constitution (late 1970s to early 1980s). My coauthor and I are looking at the issue from the perspectives of BC First Nations communities, and essentially analyzing how language (both the First Nations' and the feds') around "rights and title" and "sovereignty" changed even within that seven-ish year span, and that despite these changes, there was a high degree of mutual unintelligibility (by 1983, the two groups' definitions of those terms were still quite distinct, so even when they were sitting at the table, using the same words, they still weren't talking about the same things).

I've got a couple of good sources on this (Tony Hall's "What Are We? Chopped Liver?," JR Miller's "Petitioning the Great White Mother: First Nations’ Organizations and Lobbying in London," and Doug Sander's "The Indian Lobby" and "Prior Claims") but it seems that for the incredible amount of incredibly yawn-inducing literature on the Canadian patritation debates, very little of it actually focuses on what was a major protest movement against it. Am I missing some key scholarship here?

Thanks for any ideas. I'm also open to other comments on the topic as well!