Indigenous communities need to be empowered by their own law
Educating Canadians about Indigenous culture and law will promote understanding and compassion for First Nations people across the country we call Canada. This is why we strongly support efforts to reinvigorate and rebuild Indigenous law, such as the University of Victoria’s proposal for a joint degree program in the common law and Indigenous legal orders.
PORT PARRY, ONT.—Indigenous law is alive, functioning, and transformative in our communities. Despite hardship and oppression, our peoples have recovered traditions and begun to restore cultures that were sidelined or banned outright for far too long. Now it must become part of Canada’s reconcil...
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