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Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Policing Authenticity, Implicit Racial Bias, and Continued Harm to American Indian Families
"Another Chapter in the Pursuit of Reconciliation and Redress...": A Summary of Daniels v. Canada at the Supreme Court of Canada
Archiving Force: Ethics and Consignation
Bill S-3: A Rushed Response to Descheneaux
Bill introduced to comply with Court's decision in Descheneaux et al., v. Canada (Attorney General), which found current <i>Indian Act</i> violated equality provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Court case involved eligibility for Indian Status.
Comments on the proposed Act rather than the final version.
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
The Canadian Crown's Duty to Consult Indigenous Nations' Knowledge Systems in Federal Environmental Assessments
Centre of Excellence for Matrimonial Real Property
Child Advocacy in Saskatchewan Child Welfare Cases: Access to Justice and Indigenous Children's Rights
The Community Conundrum: Metis Critical Perspectives
on the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia
Con(TEXT) 1: A Project Fact (A) Update for 26 April 2018
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.
Cultural Genocide in Canada? It Did Happen Here
Culture in Schooling in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Daniels v. Canada (Indian Affairs and Northern Development), 2016 SCC 12
Descheneaux v. Canada, 2015 QCCS 3555 – Case Summary
Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.
Editorial: It Takes All of Us to Enforce the Law
Eighteen Years of Inmate Litigation Culminates with Some Success in the SCC's Ewert v Canada
Eliminating Indigenous Jurisdictions: Federalism, the Supreme Court of Canada, and Territorial Rationalities of Power
The Emerging Policy Relationship Between Canada and the Métis Nation
Equitable Access: A Comparison of the Sentencing of Aboriginal Offenders across Canada
Equivalency Agreements, Environmental Assessment and Aboriginal Consultation: Implications of Coastal First Nations v. British Columbia (Environment)
Everyone, No-one, Someone and the Native Hawaiian Learner: How Expanded Equality Narratives Might Account for Guarantee/Reality Gaps, Historico-Legal Context and an Admission Policy Which is Actually Levelling the Playing Field
First Peoples Law 2016
First Peoples Law: Essays on Canadian Law and Decolonization
From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
The Government of Canada's Response to the Descheneaux Decision
Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples
Includes brief historical overview of Indigenous peoples and cultural competency, practical tools and guidance for advocates, list of resources for specific assistance, and suggestions for further reading.
Related Material: 1st Supplement.
Her Majesty's Justice Be Done: Métis Legal Mobilization and the Pitfalls to Indigenous Political Movement Building
Human Rights, the Charter, and Access to Justice
Indian Act Sex Discrimination: Enough Inquiry Already, Just Fix It
Indigenous Justice: New Tools, Approaches, and Spaces
The Indigenous World 2018
Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law and the Judgment of History
Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada
The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State
The Legal Regimenting of Tribal Wealth: How Federal Courts and Agencies Seek to Normalize Tribal Governmental Revenue and Capital
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.
A Matter of National and Constitutional Import: Report of the Minister's Special Representative on Reconciliation with Métis: Section 35 Métis Rights and the Manitoba Métis Federation Decision
Meeting Halfway: Reassessing “Cognizable to the Canadian Legal and Constitutional Structure”
Métis as Treaty Parties
A Mi'kmaw Perspective on Advancing Salmon Governance in Nova Scotia, Canada: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Co-Existence
Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment?
Ojibwe Treaty Rights
Focuses on off-reservation treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in treaty-ceded lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.