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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
Searching For Sakitawak: Place And People In Northern Saskatchewan's Ile-A La Crosse, Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
Searching For Sakitawak: Place And People In Northern Saskatchewan's Ile-A La Crosse, Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
Signa A. K. Daum Shanks
This presentation is a history of a small community, Île-à-la-Crosse, located in an area now part of Saskatchewan, Canada. With an historic reputation for cooperation and enviable trading circumstances, its residents traditionally have determined that protection of the community ensured the best opportunities for the advancement and security of individuals. As a result of this belief, residents reinforced their own understandings of sustainability as a means to ensure personal success. The community’s fame for hosting such a set of norms grew, particularly from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and outsiders often visited to improve their own efforts as a …
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
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This paper considers a range of differing approaches to the question of Aboriginal land rights in the light of the judgment of the B.C. Supreme Court in the Delgamuukw case.
The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights In Canada, Brian Slattery
The Hidden Constitution: Aboriginal Rights In Canada, Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
This article reviews the constitutional and historical grounds for Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada and discusses the legal effects of entrenching these rights in the Constitution of Canada in 1982.
The Land Rights Of Indigenous Canadian Peoples, Brian Slattery
The Land Rights Of Indigenous Canadian Peoples, Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
The problem examined in this work is whether the land rights originally held by Canada's Indigenous peoples survived the process whereby the British Crown acquired sovereignty over their territories, and, if so, in what form. The question, although historical in nature, has important implications for current disputes involving Aboriginal land claims in Canada. It is considered here largely as a matter of first impression. The author has examined the historical evidence with a fresh eye, in the light of contemporaneous legal authorities. Due consideration is given to modern case-law, but the primary focus is upon the historical process proper.