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If There Can Only Be ‘One Law’, It Must Be Treaty Law. Learning From Kanawayandan D’Aaki, Dayna Nadine Scott, Andrée Boisselle
If There Can Only Be ‘One Law’, It Must Be Treaty Law. Learning From Kanawayandan D’Aaki, Dayna Nadine Scott, Andrée Boisselle
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The paper stems from a research collaboration with the Anishini community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), known as the people of Big Trout Lake in the far north of Ontario. In the face of renewed threats of encroachment by extractive industries onto their homelands, our research team visited the community on the invitation of leadership in 2017. The community was engaged in strategic planning and reflection on the work that they have done in recent years to articulate and record their own laws for the territory, and to gain recognition for those laws from settler governments. Between 2008 and 2018, …