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Harry Daniels: The Man Who Put Métis in the Constitution
Harry Daniels will share with Louis Riel the honor of having introduced the rights of the Métis people in the Constitution of Canada: Riel in s. 31...
Law
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Forestry After Tsilhqot'in
Did anyone notice that the Province didn’t officially respond to Tsilhqot’in until September 11, 2014? Why? Things have changed in a way that is hard...
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Can Indigenous Peoples Hunt in National Parks?
This is a commonly asked question so we did some research to find the answer and found all sorts of interesting information about the history of...
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Tsilhqot’in Decision Q&A with Robert Janes, JFK Law: Part 2
This is the second in the two-part series of our interview with Robert Janes, JFK Law, and Chair of the “Tsilhqot’in Nation and Recognition of...
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Tsilhqot'in Decision Q&A with Robert Janes JFK Law: Part 1
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Tsilhqot’in Decision reverberated through First Nation communities, leaders, resource developers, provincial and...
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Section 35 of the Constitution Act 1982
In 1982, the Government of Canada patriated the Canadian Constitution, and in so doing, formally entrenched Aboriginal and treaty rights in the...
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Guerin v. the Queen 1984
In 1955, the Musqueam First Nation approved a surrender "in trust" of some of its reserve land in the city of Vancouver, for the purpose of a lease...
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The Sparrow Case Affirms Constitutionally Protected Aboriginal Rights
The 1990 Supreme Court Decision in R. v. Sparrow was the first Supreme Court of Canada decision which applied s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982...
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Bands Call for Return of Agency #1 Lands
Rainy Lake has always been important to the Anishinaabe of this region,” says Chief Janice Henderson of Mitaanjigamiing First Nation. “The district...