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.
Haida Nation v. B.C. and Weyerhaeuser 2002 BCCA 147
Haida's Case
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
Indigenous Blockages and the Power to Speak the Law: From Settler Colonialism to Indigenous Resurgence
Indigenous Justice: New Tools, Approaches, and Spaces
Indigenous Linguistic Rights in the Arctic: A Human Rights Approach
Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada
Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law
The Indigenous World 2018
Individual Property Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves
[Intellectual Property and Legislation] Bibliography
Is Native Title a Proprietary Right?
Is the Crown at War with Us?
The Issue of Indigenous Underrepresentation in Canadian Criminal Juries
Jurisprudential Challenges
L. (H.) v. Canada (Attorney General)
The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State
Lawful Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat, and Brown
Legal Aid Courtworker, and Public Legal Education and Information Needs in the Northwest Territories: Final Report
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.
Manitoba Metis Join Prairie Coalition to Pursue Land Rights
Manitoba Métis President David Chartrand awaits a Court of Queen's Bench decision that will include issues related to scrip, Métis land and harvesting rights.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Maori Retribalization and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries
The Marshall Decision as News: The Construction of a Stereotyped Noble Savage in Two Canadian Newspapers, The Miramichi Leader and The Globe and Mail
The Meaning of Subsection 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982: A Comment on Mitchell v. Minister of National Revenue
Mechanisms of Indigenous Exclusion in British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Process
Meeting Halfway: Reassessing “Cognizable to the Canadian Legal and Constitutional Structure”
Metis Harvesting Rights Upheld in Ontario Court
Comments on how the Metis successfully attained the right to hunt and fish for food in Ontario.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.
Métis Rights, Daniels and Reconciliation
Metis say Proof of Being is a Link to Riel: Identity Issue could be Settles by Courts
A Métis Treaty Through the Lens of International Law
Mi'kmaq Education and the Fiduciary Duty: The Guiding Hand of Cultural Genocide
Mohawk Family Hopes To Reclaim Identity in Canadian Court
Molecular Death and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the US and Canada
Speakers discuss the issue of who and what defines Indigenous identity, settler-state's practice of imposing their definitions, the phenomenon of "playing Indian", and broader social interpretations of court decisions such as Daniels.
Duration: 1:59:35. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Native Title And The Tide of History: Shifting The Sands
Negotiating American Indian Inclusion: Sovereignty, Same-Sex Marriage, and Sexual Minorities in Indian Country
Nunavut Legal Services Study: Final Report
Ojibwe Treaty Rights
Focuses on off-reservation treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in treaty-ceded lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Old Wive's Tales: A Report in an Oil-Royalties Lawsuit Questions the Reliability of Indian Oral History
Over-represented But Not Understood: Sentencing Provisions as an Inadequate Response to the Over Incarceration of Aboriginal peoples in Nova Scotia
[Paul v. Canada, 2002 FCT 615]
Plain Talk 4: Treaties
Plain Text Description of Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration): in response to the Superior Court of Quebec decision in Descheneaux c. Canada (Procureur général)
Political Responses
Provincial Jurisdiction, Adjudicative Authority and Aboriginal Rights: A Comment on Paul v. B.C.(Forest Appeals Commission)
Recognizing Rights: Aboriginal Justice in Canada
Recommendations on First Nations Access to Indian Moneys
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.