Indigenous Rights
Law/Legal Recourses
Law Cases
100
Indigenous Rights were recognized by the Government of Canada by this year.
What is 1982?
100
Indigenous legal resources exists in any one of these traditions.
What is language, land, and stories?
100
A right or freedom an Indigenous First Nation community may run on a different rule of law.
What is hunting, fishing, land titles, religion, culture, self-Government, taxation, and treaty rights?
200
Indigenous legal traditions are part of this law.
What is the law of the land?
200
Legal resources for Indigenous Law are written in these.
What are legal texts, critical commentary, digests, and academic journal articles?
200
A member of the Moricetown Band argued that the required fishing license on the river running through his community's land infringed this right.
What are Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights?
300
The treaty rights of indigenous peoples are protected by this section of the constitution.
What is section 35?
300
In Canada, Indigenous law predates these two law systems.
What is common and civil law?
300
A Maliseet and Mi'kmaq member charged for harvesting Crown timber argued in the case stating this reason to his/her rights.
What is harvesting Crown timber on land traditionally harvested by their communities?
400
In Canada, anti-discrimination legislation exists to protect and advocate this.
What is the human rights of Aboriginal peoples?
400
Indigenous law continues to do this today.
What is to evolve, apply and adapt?
400
This first nation territory argued that logging access into their territory breached the constitutional duty to consult as well as their treaty rights.
What is Fort Nelson, British Columbia?
500
Indigenous law is recognized in this declaration.
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights Of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)?
500
In Indigenous Law, this refers to what Indigenous societies used and still use to govern themselves.
What is principles and processes?
500
Two members of the Tsartlip Nation who were caught hunting at night stated their rights under this treaty.
What is the North Saanich Treaty of 1852?