We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
The study of Indigenous law is uniquely interdisciplinary. In addition to legal materials, a researcher must draw upon scholarship and research from many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and from cultural and artistic works in order to effectively understand and address the legal issues. The Bora Laskin Law Library’s Indigenous Perspectives Collection provides access to books and audio-visual materials representing Indigenous perspectives across a number of disciplines. This broad collection allows scholars to work in one library with both the legal materials and the interdisciplinary scholarship that informs and interprets the legal materials.
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"Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B.
"A teen's suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother's search for truth: this landmark investigation into justice and Canada's Indigenous people is re-issued and updated here for the first time in over a decade.
"The Unexpected Cop: Indian Ernie on a Life of Leadership by Ernie Louttit is the author’s story of his life as a police officer and later as an author and leader.
"Otter’s Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in.
"Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of colonization.
"Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples.
"This is the inaugural edition of Key Developments in Aboriginal Law - 2019. The objective of this book is to provide commentary from leading practitioners and thought-leaders on timely and important issues in the area of Aboriginal law in Canada.
"Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized.
"In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley.
"The Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC) was formed in 1991 in response to the Oka crisis.
"This is a collection of 12 papers examining how recent aboriginal law developments create opportunities and challenges for economic developments in both Indigenous communities and the Canadian economy.
"For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority.
"Robert A. Divine here takes a searching look at the 1930's, when the United States was attempting to escape the realities of the outside world behind a wall of neutrality legislation.
Robert Ardrey describes the evolutionarily determined instinct among humans toward territoriality and the implications of this territoriality in human meta-phenomena such as property ownership and nation building.
"William Meyer, an Eastern Cherokee long active in the struggle for Indian rights, presents a Native American account of the Indian resistance movement today.
"The Law Reform Commission of Canada receives from time to time background studies for the development of its working papers. A great deal of time and work is usually necessary to develop policy proposals and recommendations for legal change.
Summary report of a 3 day meeting held in Edmonton in February 1975 called the National Conference on Native Peoples and the Criminal Justice System.
Describes and analyzes legislation related to the property (land) rights of the Metis in Manitoba.
"In this 37-page paper, Badcock intends to look from a native point of view on the manner in which Canadian courts have viewed the question of the rights of native people in their land.
StatsCan publication (part of a series) presenting statistics on the qualifications, age, citizenship of full-tme teachers in Canadian universities and colleges