Law & Justice

Shows Euro-American arrangements are not natural sex/gender relations when compared to Native American arrangements.

Website links to resources for the classroom compiled by Indigenous educators. Includes list of organizations to contact for further information.

Examines how the Pebble partnership and government regulatory regimes are addressing the environmental health and justice concerns that include potential impacts of mining operations on air and water quality, water supply, aquatic life and the welfare of the Indigenous people.

Discusses various Indigenous environmental laws and looks at the governance of those laws.

Examines the gendered element of settler-colonialism in terms of the Indian Act, the treatment of Indigenous women in the legal system, and the struggles to achieve self-determination.

Looks at the necessity of critical gender analyses of Indigenous laws.

Website includes information and resources on the history, culture, identity, rights, and politics of Aboriginal peoples.

Illustrates problems with Indigenous intellectual property rights and how they take evolving cultural traditions and freeze them to a specific time.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1991.

Looks at characteristics of traditional legal order in Eastern Canada and Nunavut.

Discusses oppression, colonial violence and Aboriginal women, and eurocentrism.

Anthropology has been key to the definition and description of Indigenous knowledge and in the debate over the application of intellectual property rights to culturally specific information.

"... introductory discussion about Indigenous law including different interpretations about what the term means, and why it is important to understand legal pluralism and to learn about Indigenous laws." Duration: 6:42.

Presents a listing of online issues concerning Australia's Indigenous peoples and the law.

"Topics discussed include why gender and sexuality matter to Indigenous law, and what Indigenous feminisms bring to the conversation". Duration: 10:23.

Comments on problematic and questionable bills as well as the Idle No More movement. Excerpts from Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems by Sylvia McAdam.

Links to resources for Canada, United States and Mexico.

Group discussion focuses on challenges regarding revitalization, difficult questions, and what is exciting about the revitalization of Indigenous laws. Duration: 9:44.

Covers use of guide, the video presentations and discussion questions. Videos.

Looks at how Indigenous students are ostracised, alienated and marginalised at law school.

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"This paper argues that the incorporation of Aboriginal principles requires some understanding of their significance via a process of cross-cultural translation that also puts conventional non-Aboriginal understandings of reconciliation under the microscope."

Topics covered are: characteristics of traditions, examples of law (Hodinohso:ni, Anishinabek, Cree, Métis, Carrier, Nisga’a, Inuit, Mi'kmaq), multi-juridical legal culture, challenges and opportunities in recognizing Indigenous traditions, and entrenching multi-juridicalism in Canada.

Contextualizes the recovery of legal traditions by looking at past, present and future debates about Indigenous laws, and looks at one example of a legal concept, the wetiko or windigo which describes people who are harmful or destructive to others. Chapter in book: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law edited by Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hornle.

Analyzes case material to explore the role of conflict and how it influences outcomes of co-management arrangements.

Looks at the principles of the Critical Race Theory, its relevance to Australia, and arguments in favour of reform.

Presents preliminary findings from new analysis of the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples and the Law edited by Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai and Kent McNeil.

Extensive list (335 pages).

"with additions made in September 2022".

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1986.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples, edited with contributions by Svien Jentoft, Henry Minde, Ragnar Nilsen.

Explores the relationships between indigenous knowledge in biological resources, and intellectual property rights systems.

Gives examples of the constraints and opportunities found in agencies such as the Native Counselling Services of Alberta and the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of New South Wales.

Comments on the value of treaty making for both parties. Chapter 2 from Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People edited by Kathryn Shain, Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer.

Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2003.

Looks at the environmental justice struggles of Indigenous peoples and their demands for equity, recognition, participation, and other capabilities, looking at all of these in terms of a concern for the basic functioning of nature, culture, and communities.

Synthesizes resources and key recommendations that consider the intersections between Aboriginality, HiV and gender.

Looks at legal policies on abortion, the services provided by Indian Health Services, and limitations on access to abortions.

Book review of: The Indigenous World 1999-2000 edited by Christian Emi.