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    Restoule v Canada is a legal case in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that considers whether the Augmentation clause in the 1850 Robinson Treaties...
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    Affairs Canada (CIRNAC; French: Relations Couronne-Autochtones et des Affaires du Nord Canada) is the department of the Government of Canada responsible...
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    The Indian Act (French: Loi sur les Indiens) is a Canadian act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves...
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    Restoule Lake is a lake found in the Almaguin Highlands region of the Parry Sound District in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is one of the larger...
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  • List of lakes of Ontario (category Lists of lakes of Canada)
    Lake Redstone Lake (Haliburton County) Redstone Lake (Sudbury District) Restoule Lake Rice Lake Ril Lake Riley Lake (Kenora District) Riley Lake (Muskoka)...
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  • Jordan's Principle (category Human rights in Canada)
    child-first and needs-based principle used in public policy and administration in Canada to ensure that First Nations children living on and off reserve have equitable...
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  • indigenous populations voted against the declaration: the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. All four have since then changed their vote...
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    Tsilhqotʼin Nation v British Columbia is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that established Aboriginal land title for the Tsilhqotʼin...
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    Supreme Court of Canada that contains its first comprehensive account of Aboriginal title (a distinct kind of Aboriginal right) in Canada.: 99  The Gitxsan...
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  • The association between the monarchy of Canada and Indigenous peoples in Canada stretches back to the first interactions between North American Indigenous...
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    Canadian Aboriginal law is the body of law of Canada that concerns a variety of issues related to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Canadian Aboriginal Law...
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  • R. v. Powley, 2003 SCC 43, commonly called the Powley ruling, is a Supreme Court of Canada case defining Métis Aboriginal rights under section 35(1) of...
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  • Treaty rights (category Treaties of Indigenous peoples in Canada)
    In Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States the term treaty rights specifically refers to rights for indigenous peoples enumerated in treaties...
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  • Gladue report (category Law of Canada)
    the Criminal Code. The process derives its name from R. v. Gladue, a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision that was the first to challenge Section 718.2(e)...
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  • Wahkohtowin (category Canadian Aboriginal and indigenous law)
    constitutional/ecological reconciliation". Canada: University of Victoria. p. 40. Retrieved 2021-11-17. Snyder E, Napoleon V, Borrows J (2015). "Gender and Violence:...
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    Royal Proclamation of 1763 (category Aboriginal title in Canada)
    Royal Proclamation continues to be of legal importance to First Nations in Canada, being the first legal recognition of aboriginal title, rights and freedoms...
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    R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1075 was an important decision of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the application of Aboriginal rights under section...
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  • Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy) was a policy paper proposal set forth by the Government of Canada related to First Nations. Prime...
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    Peace and Friendship Treaties (category Treaties of Indigenous peoples in Canada)
    Confederacy) living in parts of what are now the Maritimes and Gaspé region in Canada and the northeastern United States. Primarily negotiated to reaffirm the...
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  • R v Marshall (No 1) [1999] 3 S.C.R. 456 and R v Marshall (No 2) [1999] 3 S.C.R. 533 are two decisions given by the Supreme Court of Canada on a single...
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    1080/0145935X.2013.859903. S2CID 144148882. Restoule, Jean-Paul (2002). "Seeing Ourselves. John Macionis and Nijole v. Benokraitis and Bruce Ravelli". Aboriginal...
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    Douglas Treaties (category Treaties of Indigenous peoples in Canada)
    Claims in Western Canada' , in Renwick , ed. . Sovereignty & Indigenous Rights, pp.53 "1811 - 1867: Pre-Confederation Treaties II". Canada in the Making....
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  • Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (category Aboriginal title in Canada)
    Federation of Nunavut (now Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated), the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories. This agreement gave the...
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    Guerin v The Queen [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335 was a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision on Aboriginal rights where the Court first stated that the government...
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    Calder v British Columbia (AG) [1973] SCR 313, [1973] 4 WWR 1 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada. It was the first time that Canadian law acknowledged...
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  • Thumbnail for Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs)
    Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs) [1999] 2 S.C.R. 203, is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court expanded...
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  • Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 (category Constitution of Canada)
    rights of indigenous peoples in Canada. The section, while within the Constitution of Canada, falls outside the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...
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    Indigenous Services Canada (ISC; French: Services aux Autochtones Canada; SAC) is one of two departments in the Government of Canada with responsibility...
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  • Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (category Indigenous peoples in Canada)
    (RCAP) was a Canadian royal commission established in 1991 with the aim of investigating the relationship between Indigenous peoples in Canada, the Government...
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  • in Canada, also called specific claims, are long-standing land claims made by First Nations against the Government of Canada pertaining to Canada's legal...
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