Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, or TRC, is an organization whose focus is to recognize the impact of Canadian residential schools on Indigenous peoples and revitalize the relationship between Canadians and Indigenous peoples. In its work, the TRC has listened and recorded the testimonies of residential school survivors.
The Land Rights of Indigenous Canadian Peoples (Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1979), 478 pages. Work dealing with the historical and legal foundations of aboriginal land rights in Canada from the earliest days of contact to the close of the 17th century, and focussing in particular on the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ...
Canadian Aboriginal Law is different from Canadian Indigenous law: In Canada, Indigenous Law refers to the legal traditions, customs, and practices of Indigenous peoples and groups. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Aboriginal peoples as a collective noun [ 4 ] is a specific term of art used in legal documents, including the Constitution Act, 1982 , and includes ...
Canadian literature is written in several languages including English, French, and to some degree various Indigenous languages. It is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively. [ 1 ]
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case is a 2019 nonfiction book by Kent Roach, a law professor at the University of Toronto [1] about the trial of Gerald Stanley, who was found not guilty of the 2016 killing of Colten Boushie—a twenty-two-year-old resident of the Red Pheasant First Nation by an all-white jury in an infamous court case in ...
Musqueam flag. The Van der Peet test is a legal framework used by Canadian courts to determine the scope and content of Indigenous rights. The test was established by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 1996 case of R v Van der Peet, which involved the Musqueam First Nation in British Columbia and their traditional fishing practices.
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill. The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire), the French civil law system (inherited from its French Empire past), [1] [2] and Indigenous law systems [3] developed by the various Indigenous Nations.
[13] [22] [23] Delgamuukw (English name Earl Muldoe) was a claimant for the Gitxsan, while Gisday’wa (Alfred Joseph) was one of those representing the Wet’suwet’en. [3] The claim for jurisdiction was novel. If that claim were to have succeeded, Indigenous laws would prevail in the case of conflict with provincial law. [11]