Compromised Jurisprudence: Native Title Cases Since Mabo
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lisa Strelein
Plain language explanation of legal principles involved in analysis of R. v. Stanley, the case in which Gerald Stanley, a Saskatchewan farmer, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Cree man, Colton Boushie, and was subsequently acquitted.
Examines the decision by the Court of Appeal regarding the violation of Cree rights by the Canadian and Quebec governments.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.