Aboriginal People and the Law in British Columbia
E-Books
Author/Creator
Cliff Thorstenson
Darwin Hanna
Cynthia Callison
Description
2nd edition
Discusses the Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint filed by John Melenchuk regarding a controversial pamphlet sent out by Saskatoon Member of Parliament Jim Pankiw. At one point in the article Michael Woodiwiss contends that the essential difference between crimes committed by colonizers and contemporary Aboriginals is that the formers’ crimes went unpunished and mostly unrecorded.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Deals with continuing sex discrimination in the Indian Act, repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, social and economic conditions of Indigenous women and girls, and issues surrounding incarceration of women.