Law & Justice

This file contains a part of a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the Hunters Room, Skyline Plaza Hotel, Calgary, Alberta. This part includes a presentation given by Gloria Contois at the Round Table discussion on Metis Issues.

File contains a summary of the preceding presentation (which can be viewed on this site) entitled "Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 115: Round Table No. 2," by rapporteur Pierre Trudel. Trudel states that "It seems to me that Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people are finally getting together. They are rather unanimous in targeting the federal government." Trudel also discusses taxation and competitiveness issues, common projects, land questions, the specific nature of the Oka claim, and the difference between the situation in Quebec and that in Western and other parts of Canada.

This file contains a round table discussion from a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Wednesday, June 2, 1993.

Comments on the 2006 confrontation between the Haudenosaunee and authorities over a land development. Introduction and chapter one from Conflict in Caledonia: Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law by Laura DeVries.

Law Thesis (L.L.M.)--York University, 2000.

Discussion on various aspects of traditional knowledge, including traditional knowledge and the law, comparison of scientific and traditional approaches to knowledge, and tools for maintaining traditional knowledge.

Results of examination of practices of four Manitoba First Nations. Unedited.

Examines a documentary exploring the lives of different types of sex trade workers.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

Looks at Aboriginal women's human rights, women and customary law, and experiences with mainstream law.

Presentation of the judicial history of Aboriginal commercial rights in Canada.

Chapter in book: Rendezvous of Europe Legal Cultures edited by Jørn Øyrehagen and Knut Skodvin. Looks at Sámi legal history based on customs.

Materials from the Saskatchewan Survival Gathering, held at the Pinehouse Lake, SK campground site; 1. Program; 2. News release; 3. Schedule. The Group For Survival, based in Saskatoon, SK, sought to protest uranium mining in Saskatchewan and bring to light the harmful effects of uranium on humans and the earth.

Presents the views held by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs regarding unfulfilled veterans’ benefits. The feeling is that First Nations veterans need to get organized, on a national level, to lobby the federal government in order to be heard.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.

Process was created to determine whether compensation would be given to people who suffered sexual or serious physical abuse, or certain other wrongful acts that caused significant psychological damage. Any payments would be in addition to the Common Experience Payment.

Last three dioceses approve residential schools agreement with federal government.

Anglican primate signs agreement with federal government limiting church's liability to $25 million despite objections of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Revised agreement between Church and federal government significantly reduces liability in residential schools settlement.

Fund for payment of residential schools liability reaches 5.5 million.

Little movement but talks continuing between churches and federal government concerning residential schools settlement responsibility.

Institute "works towards greater understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal through information that is fact based, non-partisan and accessable on topical issues that affect all Canadians". Contains links to: factsheets, research papers, and news and events.

States that a comprehension of the colonial process is first needed in order to understand Aboriginal justice. Presented in part at Indigenous Peoples and Justice Program, 2005. Sample article courtesy of Native Law Centre of Canada; subscriptions available from the Centre.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2001.

Reviews theories and the issues/problems associated with their application by historians and anthropologist. Focus is on two main, competing theories: Hobsbawmian and constructivist.

Speaks about the impact of section 35 which promised protection of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights for Aboriginal People under the constitution. Duration 1:00:44.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Université Laval, 2000.

Comments on the role of law in measures that secure the legal scope of governance in the Arctic to deal with security challenges. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Looks at the definition of Saamihood by the Swedish state and self-identifying Sami people and the effects on resource allocations.

Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discusses intergovernmental relations as between provincial governments and Aboriginal peoples, particularly defining Aboriginal and Treaty rights in s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Discusses responsibilities Greenland will take over from Denmark, economic consequences and environmental changes.

Book review of: The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma by L. Susan Work. Review located by scrolling to page 206.

Brief biography of Andrew Paul, the Salish lawyer, political activist, and leader.

Website contains links to information to assist in the writing or reviewing of a Gladue Report, a document which is presented after conviction and before sentencing and takes into account special cultural considerations and the impacts of colonialism.

Rethinks Indigenous deaths as being grievable and uses grief as a resource to bring about change. Case study using Residential schools and Project Heart.

"Comprehensive land claims are based on the assertion of continuing Aboriginal rights and title that have not been dealt with by treaty or other legal means".

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Describes equal protection guarantees, tribal statutory and constitutional law, and tribal cases focused on discrimination.

Looks at how the criminal law of sexual assault deals with cases of women who are intoxicated.

Comments on the experience of establishing an electronic law journal.

Discusses the continuing attitude that Indigenous peoples are the "problem" because they are deficient and lacking the ability to fully participate in society, how Western legal instruments have dictated how they receive, retain and exercise rights, and the need for alternative approach which listens to Indigenous voices and focuses on successes and the contributions that Indigenous peoples have made and continue to make to Canada. Duration: 1:04:54.

Presents an overview of five high profile agreements between First Nations and governments regarding joint management of traditional lands and resources. Presents some conclusions for Alberta agreements.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Explorers relationship between Indigenous and Settler fishers in context of the post Marshall decision.