I am very excited to announce that my book Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada, is now available as an eBook, for those of you who prefer this format or who simply do not want to wait until September 6th! The eBook is $20.80, and you can purchase…
Category: Aboriginal law
Book announcement: Indigenous Writes
Folks, I have some exciting news! MY BOOK IS FINALLY COMING OUT! JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY!!! At last I’ve collected and expanded some of the pieces found on this blog, and wrote some new ones! I spent a tonne of time curating resources for each chapter so that people interested in a specific subject…
Guest blog: Letter to Pre-Inquiry Secretariat #MMIW
As a group of common law students at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, we submit the following as input to the pre-Inquiry design process. Throughout January 2016, we examined important case law involving Indigenous women from a critical perspective in our Indigenous Women’s Legal Advocacy course, taught by Dr. Tracey Lindberg. The themes…
Reaction to the TRC: Not all opinions are equal or valid
After six years, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada held closing events from May 31 to June 3rd, and issued its executive summary of a report which will run to six volumes, and will be translated into six Indigenous languages. The summary itself is 388 pages, and while not exactly light reading, it is…
The level playing field myth
The number of opinion pieces coming out over the June 26, Supreme Court Tsilhqot’in decision have been staggering in volume. Unsurprising, given that we have waited 17 years since the Delgamuukw decision first pronounced the possibility of Canada recognizing Aboriginal title to see a Court point to a specific tract of land and say, “and…