Institution
University of Saskatchewan
Department
College of Law
USask Author
On
Sloan, Kerry
I-Portal Content
Dealing with the “Community Conundrum”: Métis Responses to the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia—Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Rights Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice among the Metis of BC: Community Perspectives on Creating Legal Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerry Sloan
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 48-86
Description
Case developed requirement that s. 35 rights be vested in "historic" communities (existed before European control) and there must be continuity with present-day communities. Author interviewed 23 people about problems with application of the decision in three cases: Howse, Nunn, and Willison.