Community governance and nation (re)building : Gouvernance des collectivités et la (re)construction des nations : la centralisation de l'apprentissage et de la recherche autochtones

This is illustrated in our previous assertion that during the initial stage of their struggle the oppressed find in the oppressor their model of “manhood”.11 The result is often clinging to the power of the Indian Act as solution. [...] Well before the end of my first year, and in particular because of my experience of both the content and the instructor of my Canadian criminal law class,16 I knew that systemic change in the Canadian criminal justice system would not be found in the recognized criminal courts of the land.17. [...] For example, in the case of the Musqueam First Nation, the Sparrow litigation and concurrent community activism revived the community’s interest in fishing, a core traditional practice of the people. [...] However, that range of uses is subject to the limitation that they must not be irreconcilable with the nature of the attachment to the land which forms the basis of the particular group's [A]boriginal title. [...] The Supreme Court characterized the interpretation of McEachern CJ to the claim to jurisdiction as a claim to govern the territories, the high court’s summary of the trial decision proceeds as follows: This would include the right to enforce existing Aboriginal law, as well as make and enforce new laws, as required for the governance of the people and.