This week, the federal government’s budget included more than $9 million to support the Indigenous law post-secondary program. But a growing number of Indigenous legal scholars hope to see the multitude of First Nations’ law systems take their rightful place alongside those two. Every court case “is an opportunity” to carve out space, Napoleon suggested. “Indigenous law has been undermined but it hasn’t gone away. “People are doing work to rebuild and re-establish Indigenous law in Canada.

Source: thestar March 22, 2019 01:07 UTC