Dish with one spoon Wampum Belt
Canada
Indigenous Peoples
This is a replica of the One Dish One Spoon Wampum, which established an agreement to share resources of territories in vast regions of the Great Lakes peacefully among a number of Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee.
Muskrat Magazine: http://muskratmagazine.com/toronto-aka-tkaronto-passes-new-city-council-protocol/
Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts / Chefs iroquois de la réserve des Six-Nations en train de lire des ceintures wampum.
Canada
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Indigenous Peoples
This is a photograph of Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts
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Library and Archives Canada
Sept. 14, 1871
Public Domain
Credit: / Electric Studio / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / C-085137 / Electric Studio/Library and Archives Canada/C-085137
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/ Electric Studio / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / C-085137 / Electric Studio/Library and Archives Canada/C-085137
Arrests at Skwelkwek'welt
Canada
Indigenous Land
Indigenous Land Claims
Indigenous Peoples
This is a photograph of an Indigenous man being arrested at Skwelkwek'welt, the location of the Sun Peaks resort development. This man and many others were arrested for protesting at Skwelkwek'welt and for attempting to defend this land, which is traditional Secwepemc Nation territory.
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The Anti-Poverty Committee, "Campaign: Skwelkwek'welt", online: <a href="https://users.resist.ca/apc.bkp/skwelkwekwelt.html" target="_blank">https://users.resist.ca/apc.bkp/skwelkwekwelt.html</a>
Anti-Poverty Committee: <a href="https://users.resist.ca/apc.bkp/home.html" target="_blank">https://users.resist.ca/apc.bkp/home.html</a>
September, 2004
(c) The Anti-Poverty Committee
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<em>Skeetchestn Indian Band and Secwepemc Aboriginal Nation v. Registrar of Land Titles, Kamloops</em>, 2000 BCCA 525
Canada
Land title system
Indigenous land
legal systems
Legal order
This decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal addressed whether a provincial land titles Registrar properly refused to attached a note of "lis pendens" (pending litigation) to the title of land slated to be developed into recreational facilities by one of the defendants in the case, Kamlands. The land in question represents traditional territory of Skeetchestn Indian Band and Secwepemc Aboriginal Nation, but was not yet subject to a treaty. The government of British Columbia sought to transfer this land to Kamlands for development. The Secwepemc Aboriginal Nation sought to restrain this transfer by attaching the lis pendens to the title. The B.C. land titles Registrar refused to attach the lis pendens, however; This decision was challenged. The BC Superior Court held that the Registrar was correct in making this refusal, and the BC Court of Appeal upheld this decision. The BC Court of Appeal held that litigation relating to a land claim is not capable of being the type of litigation that would give rise to a lis pendens. Land claims litigation occurs in the Federal Courts and are "up stream". Land claims litigation does not meet the criteria under the law of British Columbia for giving rise to a lis pendens on the certificate of indefeasible title.
British Columbia Court of Appeal
<em>Skeetchestn Indian Band and Secwepemc Aboriginal Nation v. Registrar of Land Titles, Kamloops</em>, 2000 BCCA 525, online: <a href="http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/ca/00/05/c00-0525.htm" target="_blank">http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/ca/00/05/c00-0525.htm</a>
<span>Skeetchestn Indian Band and Secwepemc Aboriginal Nation v. Registrar of Land Titles, Kamloops, 2000 BCCA 525 (CanLII), <</span><a href="http://canlii.ca/t/1fnjx" target="_blank"><span class="documentStaticUrl">http://canlii.ca/t/1fnjx</span></a><span>>, retrieved on 2017-03-12</span>
British Columbia Court of Appeal
Canadian Legal Information Institute: CanLii.org
Sept. 26, 2000
(c) British Columbia Court of Appeal
(C) Canadian Legal Information Institute
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Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta
Canada
history
Indigenous peoples
treaty
Two Row Wampum
The following description is adapted from Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a> <br /><blockquote>Two rows of blue, each symbolizing a different nation. Separated and surrounded by three rows of white; one for peace, another for friendship and the last for forever. This is what was built into the Two Row Wampum, an agreement made between the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch upon European arrival in North America. The Wampum ensured that Europeans and First Nations, while living side by side on the same land, would refrain from interfering in each other’s nations.</blockquote>
Haudenosaunee Nation and Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (the Dutch Republic)
Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a>
Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/</a>
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nondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a>
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Wampum belt
Royal Proclamation, 1763
Canada
Legal Systems
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous land rights
Indigenous law
From the website of the Government of Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, "250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763": <br /><blockquote>"On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation establishing a new administrative structure for the recently acquired territories in North America. He also established new rules and protocols for future relations with First Nations people. <br /><br />"The Proclamation has two significant parts. First, it defined the land west of the established colonies as "Indian Territories", where First Nations people "should not be molested or disturbed" by settlers and where the Indian Department would be the primary liaison between the Crown and First Nations people; and second, in order to prevent any future abuse, the Proclamation prohibited colonial governors from making any grants or taking any land cessions from First Nations people and established a set of protocols and procedures for the purchasing of First Nations land."</blockquote>
<br />See online: online: <a href="https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645" target="_blank">https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645</a>
Image file: image of one of the three existing copies of the Royal Proclamation of 1763
PDF file: Transcript of the Royal Proclamation, 1763
King George III of England
Image file: Royal Proclamation, King George III of England Issued October 7, 1763. Broadside. Library and Archives Canada, e010778430, AMICUS no. 7468714
PDF file: derived from Clarence S. Brigham, ed., British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, Volume 12, Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1911), pp. 212-18, which reproduces the original text of the Proclamation printed by the King's Printer, Mark Baskett, in London in 1763.
Government of Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, "250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763", online: <a href="https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645" target="_blank">https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645</a>
Library and Archives Canada
Government of Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada,
Clarence S. Brigham, ed., British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, Volume 12, Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1911),
King's Printer, Mark Baskett, in London, 1763.
October 7, 1763
Public Domain
Image credit:Library and Archives Canada
Textual transcription credit:Clarence S. Brigham, ed., British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, Volume 12, Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1911),
Original text credit: King's Printer, Mark Baskett, in London, 1763
Government of Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, "250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763", online: <a href="https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645" target="_blank">https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370355181092/1370355203645</a>
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Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian <em>Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em>
Canada
Legal system
Legal Order
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Indigenous rights
Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms address how rights protected under the Charter will intersect with existing rights held by Canada's Indigenous peoples. Section 25 guarantees that no rights protected under the Charter will be used to abrogate or derogate from right belonging to Aboriginal people (including land rights and rights under the Royal Proclamation), . Section 35 provides distinct recognition and affirmation of existing Aboriginal and Treaty rights. This is an important step in amalgamating common law and Aboriginal law traditions.
<em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em>, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11
Government of Canada, Department of Justice, Laws website, online: <a href="http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html" target="_blank">http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html</a>
1982
(c) Government of Canada
<em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em>, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11, online: <a href="http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html" target="_blank">http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html</a>
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<em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em>, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11
Excerpts from <em>Connolly v. Woolrich et al.</em> (1867), 17 R.J.R.Q. 75
Canada
common law
civil law
Indigenous law
legal systems
These files contain excerpts from <em>Connolly v. Woolrich et al.</em> , an important 1867 case. This case considered the legality of a marriage between a man employed by the Hudson Bay and an indigenous woman. The wedding was not performed by a priest, but rather, in accordance with indigenous traditions. The progeny of this relationship later made claim to the man’s estate upon his death; however, the man had married once again in a recognized institution upon his retirement. His widow claimed the previous marriage was invalid and the son was entitled to nothing. Monk J. disagreed. He reasoned that we must not abrogate indigenous traditions in favour of our own without good reason; rather, we ought to consider such traditions alongside our own legal traditions. Ultimately, Monk J. went on the record to say that indigenous rights and customs mattered, to some degree, as much as those of the European settlers.
Quebec Superior Court per Monk J
<em>Connolly v. Woolrich et al.</em> (1867), 17 R.J.R.Q. 75
Superior Court of Quebec
July 9, 1867
Quebec Superior Court
For a link to the full text of the case, see: <a href="http://documents.mx/documents/connolly-v-woolrich-1867.html" target="_blank">http://documents.mx/documents/connolly-v-woolrich-1867.html</a>
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Information brochure: TTC Justice Council & Peacemaker Court
Canada
Legal systems
legal order
Teslin Tlingit Justice Council and Peacemaker Court
Indigenous Peoples
This brochure provides information about the Teslin Tlingit Justice Council and Peacemaker Court. A tripartite agreement among the Teslin Tlingit Council, the Yukon government, and the Canadian government provided for the establishment of a Teslin Tlingit justice system, including the establishment and recognition of a Peacemaker Court. The Peacemaker Court has the authority to hear disputes relating to Teslin Tlingit law, in accordance with the Teslin Tlingit principles and values.
Teslin Tlingit Justice Council
Government of the Teslin Tlingit Council
Teslin Tlingit Justice Council
Government of the Teslin Tlingit Council
Government of the Teslin Tlingit Council
December 2015
(c) Government of the Teslin Tlingit Council
(C) Teslin Tlingit Justice Council
Department of Justice of the Teslin Tlingit Council website: www.ttc-teslin.com/justice-home.html
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