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Class Date
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Activity/Readings to Prepare
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08 Sept
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Organizational Meeting
* Course
Syllabus
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Part I: A Brief History of Indigenous/Settler Relations
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15 Sept
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Early Contact & Developing International Law
* Pope Alexander
VI's Papal Bull, the Inter
Caetera (1493)
* The Doctrine of Discovery
(and two videos)
* The
Two-Row Wampum
* The
Royal Proclamation (1763)
* A Eurocentric
International Legal Order
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22 Sept
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From Contact to Conflict in North America
* The Marshall Decisions
(1820s, 1830s)
* The Indian Act (1876)
* St Catherine’s Milling
& Lumber Company v The Queen (1888)
*
CARDINAL (1969). Excerpt from The Unjust Society
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29 Sept
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Canada Looks to Seal the Deal
* LAWRENCE (2003) Gender,
Race & Regulation of Native Identity
* ALFRED & CORNTASSEL (2005) Politics of
Identity: Being Indigenous
* CHARTRAND (2019) Colonialism and the
Penitentiary
* OBOMSAWIN (1993) Kanehsatake:
270 Years of Resistance
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Part II: Dealing
with Crime & Trouble in Indigenous Communities
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06 Oct
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Indigenous
Philosophies of Justice
* HENDERSON (1995). Exploring Justice as
Healing
* MONTURE-OKANEE (1995). Justice as
Healing: Thinking About Change
* VICTOR (2007). Indigenous Justice: Clearing Space
and Place for Indigenous Epistemologies
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13 Oct
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Class Cancelled for Thanksgiving
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20 Oct
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Indigenous
Justice Programming in Canada
* PALYS (1999). Vancouver's Aboriginal Restorative
Justice Program: The Challenges Ahead.
* PALYS, SCHAEFER & NUSZDORFER (2014). Lessons From a
Case Study of Aboriginal and Canadian Justice Coexistence in Vancouver
* MULGREW (2022). First Nations
Justice Moves Forward
Video: Jonathan Rudin of
Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto
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27 Oct
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Nation-Based
Justice: Conflict or Co-existence?
* PALYS (2025). Wet’suwet’en
Hereditary Chief is “Prisoner of Conscience”
* NAPOLEAN (2019). Recognizing Multiple
Legal Systems: Decolonizing Our Understandings of “The” Law
* McGUIRE (2022).
Reflections on Decolonization and XaaydaGa Tll Yahda TllGuhlGa:
A Haida Justice System
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Video:
John Borrows of UVic on Indigenous Law
* Here
is Assignment 2. It is due on 8 December
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Part III: Routes to Justice
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03 Nov
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Seeking
Justice through Direct Action
* SANCHEZ & STUCKEY (2009). The Rhetoric of American Indian
Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
* COULTHARD
(2012) Canada's
First Nations – A History of Resistance
* KIEL (2013). Rebuilding Indigenous Nations:
Native American Activism and the Long Red Power Movement
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ALFRED (2015). Twenty-Five
Years After Oka, It’s Still About the Land
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Video:
1969
Occupation of Alcatraz
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10 Nov
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Seeking
Justice through The Courts
* VENNE (2018). Crown Title - A Legal Lie
* Memorial
to Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada, from the Chiefs of
the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of BC (1910)
* Delgamuukw
headline
from 1997
* BORROWS (1999). Sovereignty’s Alchemy: An Analysis of Delgamuukw v British Columbia
* MORALES & VAN WAGNER (2025).
BC Courts recognize Cowichan title
* “Aboriginal
Title” from St Catharines Milling (1888) to Cowichan (2025)
*
Video: Palmater (2021) Canada, It’s Time for Land
Back
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17 Nov
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Seeking
Justice through Treaties
* The Nisga'a Treaty (see especially Ch. 12 on Administration
of Justice)
* Map
of Canada Treaty areas
* VENNE (2007). Treaties Made in Good Faith
* ALFRED & TOMLINS (2009) The
Politics Of Recognition: Colonial Groundhog Day
* New Treaty Policy re
extinguishment (2019)
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Video: Interpreting and
Understanding Treaties
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Video: Interview with
Art Manuel: This Land is Our (Title) Land
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24 Nov
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Seeking
Justice through The International Arena
* The Last Speech of Deskaheh
* SCHABUS (2018). Going International to
Decolonize
* United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* ANAYA (2014). Report of the Special Rapporteur on Canada
* CCPA & UBCIC (2018). True,
Lasting Reconciliation: Implementing the UNDRIP in BC (Summary)
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MORALES & NICHOLS (2018) Reconciliation:
Beyond the Box
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Video: How UNDRIP
Changes Canada’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples
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01 Dec
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Seeking Justice through
Self-determining Nationhood
* SIMPSON
(2016). Indigenous
Resurgence and Co-Existence
* MANUEL
& DERRICKSON (2017). The End of Colonialism
* PALMATER (2018). Decolonization is
Taking Back Our Power
* Video: Interview with Taiaiake
Alfred on Indigenous Governance
* Video: Vignette with Leanne
Simpson
* Here is Assignment 3. It is due
December 8.
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Monday
08 Dec
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Assignments
2 and 3 are due. There is no final exam in this course.
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